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Unread post by **machinebacon** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 5:35 pm

^ the last one was executed... oops :D

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:53 am

bones wrote:^I know, who knew Romania had billionaires! ;)

Of course they have, that is why such countries are so underdeveloped. :D

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:58 am

The poorer the country, the richer their billionaires :D

The last time a billionaire helped a FOSS product was Ubuntu. :troll:

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:10 pm

^ OpenBSD Touch will be out next year. :)

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 5:59 pm

^Now that would be cool and I'd definitely put it on whatever device. Can't be worse than Android :sorry:

http://www.bada.com/whatisbada/

Unread post by **bones** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:29 pm

I want this phone:

https://www.blackphone.ch/

Wonder if it will use Firefox OS, as the Geeksphone people are doing the hardware:

http://www.geeksphone.com/

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:31 pm

Black Phone, Black Arch, Black Ivan.

Unread post by **bones** » Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:35 pm

Black is the new black.

Unread post by **hinto** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:00 am

PearOS just died
http://pearlinux.fr/
-Hinto

Unread post by **ivanovnegro** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:46 am

^ Yep, what a loss. :D But it would be interesting to know who bought it.

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:59 am

^Apple Inc. :D

Unread post by **hinto** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:09 pm

Of course... I'm poking around to see what it would take to weld Gala/Pantheon to LinuxBBQ ;)
-Hinto

Unread post by **bones** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:22 pm

Mac OS XI, based on Linux, hahaha!

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:53 pm

Rumors have it that Windows 9 comes with a Linux kernel (or do I remember right?!)

Unread post by **hinto** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:12 pm

^There has been a 3rd party linux kernel service that's been available for some time. (Haven't tried it)
http://www.colinux.org/
-Hinto

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:16 pm

Unread post by **hinto** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:49 pm

Of course... Guess I'm saying that again MS fails to innovate (again)
-Hinto

Unread post by **bones** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 3:55 pm

Look what came back from the dead (or very sleepy):

http://lists.gobolinux.org/pipermail/go ... 08940.html

Unread post by **machinebacon** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:37 pm

- The Installer (especially its Qt based GUI) has not been tested yet

Now that's a statement :D

Unread post by **johnraff** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:39 am

machinebacon wrote:Can't be worse than Android :sorry:

...sigh... My wife's Nexus 10 is driving us both crazy. Hiding information to make things "user friendly"?

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