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pop_os! is boring - and that is a truly fantastic thing!
Been running Pop_OS! as my daily driver for over a year now, and my experience has been truly great. Thinking about what makes my experience great i dawned on me, that it's cause pop_os! is "boring". Let me explain what i mean by this:
- - there are no crashes and hardly any bugs - the OS is reliable, dependable & performant.
- - there are no viruses & exploits (at least compared to windows)
- - there is no spyware or OS manufacturer nastiness (telemetry etc.)
- - there are hardly any wild design inconsistencies (OSX/Win legacy mess)
- - keeping the OS updated is extremely easy and reliable (compared to "win update" hell)
- - customizing the OS to do what ever you want is super easy and powerful.
- - even though the OS allows for customization, it works super smooth with out any of them.
- - there are no commercial interests, which jeopardize the OS (win/osx app stores)
- - etc. etc. etc.
In summary: Pop "just works" so well on all levels, that it makes desktop computing feel "boring". It allows me to forget about the OS completely and focus exclusively on my apps and tasks. And this is a truly fantastic, almost magical thing!
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CERN switches from Microsoft to Open Source Software (2019) (news reports).
#Comment: That CERN was using Microsoft to conduct their "cutting edge science", is pure brain-dead #Comedy gold. Remember this and smile, the next time they announce "a groundbreaking discovery", release an esoteric advertising video or perform exotic rituals.
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Huawei is reportedly exploring Aurora, a Sailfish OS fork, as its Android alternative https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-aurora-salfish-os-fork-android-alternative/ #Technology #OS #Politics
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Inside Huawei’s secretive plans to develop an operating system to rival Google’s Android:
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3013813/inside-huaweis-secretive-plans-develop-operating-system-rival-googles #OS #Technology #PoliticsKey info: the OS will not be based on Linux but a microkernel; the OS hasn’t been largely tested for a commercial release; it is highly secretive even inside Huawei
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Chinese Military Wants to Develop Custom OS, not move to Linux:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/06/chinese_militar.html https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-military-to-replace-windows-os-amid-fears-of-us-hacking/ #Military #OS -
Russian military moves closer to replacing Windows with Astra Linux:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-military-moves-closer-to-replacing-windows-with-astra-linux/ #OS #OpenSource #Military -
Linux Deepin - made in china: https://www.deepin.org/en/
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"Earth 2.0 - A Sustainable Human-Earth OS" - talk by Tencent CXO @dwallerstein (at 2018 Tencent WE Summit). #Regenerative #OS #ClimateChange #Technology #FFHCI
It is refreshing, timely & sane to see a executive (@dwallerstein) of a tech giant (tencent) give a keynote on climate change & outline a strategic vision for the role of tech (AI, IOT etc) to tackle this challenge (& opportunity). US tech seems deep asleep on this crucial issue.
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The Chinese are silently developing a new type of operating system for a new type of operating environment: An A.I enabled IOT OS for integrated civilisation-scale infrastructure:
Huawei introduces autonomous driving core network: #IOT #OS
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AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
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"The second largest engineering project of the 1960s was IBM OS 360, the largest was putting a man on the moon": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360_and_successors
