"Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive."
- Dave B
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"Overall I'm impressed. There's a few rough edges and some obvious short-term hacks, but overall the Pre has the appearance of being a well-engineered distribution. It's recognisably Linux in a way the Android isn't."
- Dave B
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Sad to hear: "the Android application layer isn't Unix in any real sense" and "Right now the fact that Android is based on Linux is doing almost nothing to benefit the larger Linux community. What could have been a valuable opportunity for us to gain understanding of an interesting problem has instead ended up as yet another embedded vendor kernel, despite all the assurances I got from various people at Google"
- Dave B
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"With 800,000 meanings for 600,000 words organised into more than 230,000 categories and subcategories, the thesaurus is twice the size of Roget’s version."
- Dave B
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America's Place in the World, The Spectator Lecture, Royal Geographical Society, presented in London 30th April 2009 - Stephen Fry - http://www.stephenfry.com/blog...