[Arm-netbook] fosdem2016

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:

>> Perhaps it would be interesting to establish requirements for
>> software and minimum hardware requirements as did 96boards.

> It also provokes a lot of squabbling between people about the "official"
> choice, reminding me a bit of initiatives like Linux Standards Base (if I
> remember it right) where Red Hat technologies were chosen, thus alienating
> everyone else and diminishing the importance of the whole thing.

 yeah - the arguments all stop when each company can go "mmm.... i
want to create our own branded CPU Card" and they find, amazingly,
that they can do exactly that and nobody's going to stop them.

 at some point i will actually create executable business cards that
have a presentation pre-loaded, and the "traditional" business bits
printed out as a label on the metal case :)


> On my 1GB machine, the biggest problems I have, apart from rampant scripts and
> resources needing to be loaded from tens of tracking sites and silos, is the
> depositing of large images that appear to be dynamically scaled in the
> browser, supposedly so that mobile users get the right format served up to
> them, or something. (Responsive design or whatever it is called.)

 there was an article on slashdot about exactly this, someone released
a variant of a desktop thingy which, by cutting out the crap, reduced
the package size from something mad like 600mb down to only 23mb.

 so you're definitely not the only person to have noticed the madness
of rampant-sized images.

l.