Am 20.03.2013 21:40, schrieb Gordon Messmer: > So, I'll repeat myself. Yes, there will be a niche that's filled by the same systems we have today. Large > computers running legacy code, providing whatever doesn't fit in a mobile package. However, that's likely to > become increasingly niche. what you guys not realize is the simple fact that currently a) mobile devices are hyped b) not that much workstations are sold becaus eno need a few years ago a new desktop PC gave you a huge performance boost, these days with 4x3.4 GHz Sandy Brdige machines having 16 GB of RAM and some TB storage you do not need a new machine for at least 5 years and probably longer only a idiot would replace a i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz Sandy Bridge with a i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz Ivy Bdrige, and yes i have both of them because i was in the position to do a drop-in-replacement by get a new machine which doe snot need power and switched the disks of my home-server in it, it's faster but not that much and the siwtch was only done because the hardware was there so what - you need all two years a new mobile device by lack of updates and planned obsolescence and some naive people start to believe "hey desktops are dying" any bet that in 5-6 years all this low-brainers will rub their eyes because the large amount of sold desktops and the biggest mistake developers can do is cripple down desktop interfaces to smartphones in the meantime SUMMARY: nobody, really nobody needs Fedora on smartphones there are eonugh systems for them and we do not need every distribution on the planet there instead SPECIALIZED ones which really fit compared to half baken compromises
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