Re: ZDNet Recommends Linux

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Am 11.04.2013 17:45, schrieb Gary Stainburn:
> On Thursday 11 April 2013 15:39:15 Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 11.04.2013 16:03, schrieb Gary Stainburn:
>>> On Thursday 11 April 2013 14:55:01 Tim wrote:
>>>> Allegedly, on or about 11 April 2013, Michael Leung sent:
>>>>> I am thinking about some linux based opensource tablet os.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not...  It's an utterly useless machine for almost everything that I
>>>> do.
>>>
>>> I can't see what this would give you over the Android already installed. 
>>> I have a SSH/telnet client, a VNC client, a VPN client all running under
>>> Android. What else do you need on a tablet apart from a pool app and a
>>> flight sim?????
>>
>> sounds like you are never done serious work on your computer
>>
>> i have Android and VNC/RDP/SSH too but it is a nightmare doing
>> serious work on a touch-display and it is a nightmare to work
>> with a browser-based CMS
>>
>> nobody which works all day long with his computer will ever use
>> smartphones or tablets for this and when a remote-session to
>> a powerful machine does not fit the workload even not with
>> a external keyboard and a large screen attached
>>
>> these are nice devices fpr by-the-way-work, not more and not less
> 
> Reindl
> 
> I think that you have missed the point.  I completely agree with you that 
> using a tablet as a proper work horse is a none-starter. That is *why* I said 
> that there is no point going to the effort of replacing the already competent 
> enough Android OS with Linux as the increase in functionality would be 
> minimal. (I wouldn't be without my peoper qwerty touch keyboard app and don't 
> know what a Linux equiv would be like)

i do not see this in the post i responded to adn especially
not in the context you responded before

> As for never doing serious work on my computer, you know absolutely jack s**t 
> about me or my 25 years in the business

see above - you responded to "I'm not...  It's an utterly useless machine for
almost everything that I do" - so you have learned to make your context clear
in the message you write and not in the message you thought you write

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