On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:24:28 -0600 Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If the bioses and systems years ago had been opaque we wouldn't have > > gotten this far. > > > Please elaborate on this, and define "this far". Apple has had fairly > opaque booting for ~28 years, so I'm curious how much farther they > need to go. 'this far' - developing an os. Developing an OS without closed/restricted/special access to professional documentation on the platform. Apple builds their own hw and can hire people to work on their problems with their infinite pile of money. We need to recruit people into being interested in linux. Take a look at the age demographic of a lot of linux kernel/distribution maintenance folks. We're skewing to an older cohort. We need to make it possible for others to be involved. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
