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No, the main point is they provide a reference image using mkosi, and you can clone kde-linux and trivially make spins. At some point I expect just about everyone is gonna find a spin which scratches all their itches and which they are devoted too.

I compile a Qt Quick application statically for the Raspberry Pi on a regular basis, and the whole binary is around 7 megs big. If you remove Qt Declarative (Your hello world just requires QtCore) it will be a fraction of this size.

So nice to see people fabricating numbers and passing them off as data.

Turns out the 910 works perfectly once you fix somes niggles with the wifi and the i915 module.

http://chaos-reins.com/2016-11-14-arch-yoga-910/

Unfortunately it still feels cheaper to purchase a Windows laptop, and simply scrape Windows off its boot.

I object to being gouged for opting to run a certain system. The amount of invested time required to get modern Linux up on a non-psychotic (psycho like the Yoga 910) is a solid investment to the required baseline of competence required to be a Linux dev.

Anandtech run a periodical series of articles of the best laptops available at present:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9798/best-laptops

as long as you run a modern distro, and they are intel throughout, it should be relatively painless. Of course you have to do a little more background checking once you settle on a machine you intend to buy, much like the Lenovo Yoga 910/710 explicitly disabling ahci disk access and hence requiring a time sink (on your part) in order to get that resolved.

I intend to grab either an XPS, a Precision or a Lenovo t560. The x1 carbon is a very nice machine that most of my buddies (Linux people) gravitate too, but I purchased one which appeared to have a CPU fault and would start exhibiting visual artifacts (and instability) at 50 degrees Celsius, which does not require much of a workload. Pegging the fan helped to a limited extent, but chrome finds ways to skirt that.

I personally avoid discrete GPUs; Intel is good enough, I like running gnome on wayland (today) and having card switching work correctly is both a time sink and a maintenance burden best reserved for the devouted

Most of those links are several months to several years old, up until you get back to a link to this article, and your comment coming up first.

The fact they arent initially sorted by stagnation/date further invalidates really breaking a sweat looking up this kind of thing.

Yes, by people with money who don't want to live in the mainland. Incase you haven't realized it, people with money get out of China. Taiwan and Hong Kong are functional entities with a lifestyle (and civil liberties) which are wholly familiar to anyone who has lived in a civil democracy. The individual is worth something. Go visit the Bodies exhibit if you want to meet a mainland Democrat/political dissident.

Please also note that big chunk of the population in both Hong Kong and Taiwan fled the Cultural Revolution; so Chinese reintegration would best be compared to the state of Israel being given back to a direct descendant of the Nazi party. #Godwin #EverythingIsAwesome

The video does look cool. I keep on intending to use my primary Linux dev box as an outwards facing web server, but every time I take steps towards this, I realize how much I would be dropping my shorts in the process.

You people should be targeting professional photographers, smug mug and friends offer really limited functionality to content owners who really should control their own material.

It is Qt 4.8 based, there is clearly zero intention of remerging it. They changed the build system!

There are lots of people seeking to repackage Qt's work, add their own spin (pittance of work) and then attempt to profit off of it as a discrete product.

The energy of the people involved, the domain the product catered to, it was awesome to be party to this.

If you are unfamiliar with the project http://www.qt.io/ will enlighten

You voted with your wallet for a large screen phone, as people in the past voted with their wallet for large screen phones. You could have purchased the Z3 compact or some other device targeting the small device niche market, but you voted against it. Good job!

I think that question stands in the wake of reading the article. People seem to arguing that the language used constitutes a threat; I don't see that in the slightest. It isn't overtly friendly, but it isn't menacing.

Lots of kids appear to be losing their parents money.

Giving your kids access to tech under NDA is like giving your kids access to guys. You are not going to have a good time.

You can debate the degree to which this kind of secrecy is warranted, but at the end of the day, when you sign an NDA it is legally binding, and you can't simply blame violating that legal contract with a "Kids will be kids"

The phone looks awesome, I really enjoy their design style.

I have a friend who wrote a game for the Nokia n8; he had something like a couple hundred purchases and made it through to the semi-final for a (I might misremember) $10k prize.