Originally Posted by
GMPX
x86 sucks which is why majority of phones are ARM based.
No ARM Is cheaper, money dictates a lot of the choices.
I hope the new owners enjoy porting it because I can't see Paul EVER doing that, and anyway for what distro? There is only what 1,000 to choose from now :pokey:
Google has influenced a lot of the kernel development lately so Linux is becoming more Android than you think.
There is not a thousand, Ubuntu, Fedora, opensuse, are your top 3, Debian and Slackware main OS, now many winders is there now Vista, 7, 8,8.1-- :anitoof:
Common sense plays a big part in how safe your computer is too and how much market share something has. If (a big if) OSX or Linux had a 89%+ market share on desktops like Windows does then hackers would be all over them too.
I'm not an MS fan boy but the alternatives offer no real reason to switch.