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HP Propelling Linux Into Truly 'Big' Time

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worker201:
Well, that would be nothing more than a file that matches widgets from the toolkits up with generic names.  Using such a proxy kit could allow someone to transfer an old program into some other widget set.  ie, using the proxy to change qt to generic, and then use the proxy in the other direction to change generic to gtk.  I think it could work, if the proxy was smart enough.

Carolina:
HP's has a record of botching Windows software to make their hardware run. Can this be considered to be any real help to Linux?
Or will they require you to run their invasive software as they do on Windows?

hm_murdock:
I can just see it now... they end up having to build a perfect Windows emulation layer of their own (since, being a company, they couldn't stand to use Wine) just so they can run some stupid little corporate spyware apps to bother you and ask you if you thought about tech support today, or to make that little USB card reader work.

Kintaro:
Simple soulution, if you want to release a closed source application on a system that depends on something that might break like uhm, glibc, you use an intermedite language. Microsoft .NET has MSIL, I think Mono or DotGNU have something similar. The intermediate language is bytecode (kinda like java, but better) that compiles into native code and well, works. That is much smarter and could allow packaging to be a lot easier.

noob:
i think its great that linux is moving up in the world. im going to have unix on my server soon just to see what its like.

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