Re: [gentoo-user] any one using ubuntu phones?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:33:08PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote
>
>> I love to get ride of android altogether!
>> I would love to see a platform open enough that I am able to install my
>> bootloader on it easily and boot what I prefer using a usb flash memory.
>> This is what I consider as the linux or more appropriately free software
>> ecosystem.
>> It is obvious that we are far from this but I think that we deserve it
>> anyways.
>> I dont know whay we are not there yet, touch screen is just another input
>> device, baseband modulator and demodulators are just another device
>> attached to the CPU.
>   Linux is a desktop OS.  I hope it remains that way.  My main worry is
> that some devs are pulling a Microsoft and bastardizing the desktop UI
> to make it "touch compatable".  Firefox has changed to the
> Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Austraulis GUI.  In plain English, it sucks.
> I've switched to Seamonkey to keep the old interface.
>
>   If you want a smartphone/tablet without Android, I recommend rooting
> the device, and having CyanogenMod installed.  It's Android without the
> Google-garbage.  A selection of FOSS apps is available at
> https://f-droid.org/  Because CyanogenMod is based on Android, it can
> run native Android apps from Google Play.
>


What version of Firefox are you using?  I've seen some changes made to
Firefox but nothing that drastic.  I'm just curious if maybe I'm still
running a older not affected version. 

My reason for asking.  I'm volunteer on staff at a social site.  I have
several accounts there.  Firefox, especially giving the addons it has,
is the best option for me to use to have multiple profiles open at one
time.  Plus, I don't need the email feature for that either.  If
something ugly and nasty is coming, I need to start figuring out what I
can do to work around this or something else to use. 

Dale

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