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After years of trying, Linux developers finally manage to copy the multitouch trackpad gesture feature that has been available for Macs for years. The Linux Foundation's strategy of copying OS X in order to make Linux easier for the average consumer is bearing fruit!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/1945...es_coming_to_linux_chrome_and_other_oses.html


"Have you wanted multi-touch support on your notebook's touchpad, but were out of luck because you've been running Ubuntu? Synaptics announced today the extension of its Gesture Suite to several Linux operating systems, which means that you can now zoom, flick, rotate, and ChiralScroll to your heart's content on your Linux box."
 
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I installed Ubuntu on my netbook hoping to get some speed out of it. That touchpad was a nightmare. I had to disable all the features to make it usable. It's not really suitable for gestures. Too small. For me.
 
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mamasanlover said:
You need to understand; Ubuntu is NOT "plug n play" like Windows, there's actually continual tweaking needed.
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The only tweaking Ubuntu needs is for flash. In this case I just put the correct code in Terminal and a minute later Flash runs fine. Everything else is pretty much 'plug & play'. Compared to other Linux distros, Ubuntu really requires very little tweaking. However you are free to tweak Ubuntu to your hearts content to customize it any which way you want if you so desire or just let it run off its default settings. You have this freedom with Linux.
 
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mamasanlover said:
You need to understand; Ubuntu is NOT "plug n play" like Windows, there's actually continual tweaking needed.
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If Ubuntu shares anything with Debian, it's setup once and run forever (literally), and a lot of work has gone into getting that initial setup right. As far as copying goes-- In so far as it isn't a patent violation (and software patents are retarded anyway), good for them. 'Inventing' a new behaviour for a task where there is an established and functional behaviour is often a bad idea. (Except where the initial behaviour is 'just bad' like double clicking-- Having it as a compatibility option isn't isn't bad, but as a default it encourages new users to 'stutter click' on everything.) But the basic apple gestures for zoom and whatnot make good sense... If linux standardized on do a top to bottom zig-zag for zoom people would say Linux is 'retarded'. I'll take 'pragmatically copies where it makes sense' any day so we can focus on real features.
 
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WoodPeckr said:
The only tweaking Ubuntu needs is for flash. In this case I just put the correct code in Terminal and a minute later Flash runs fine. Everything else is pretty much 'plug & play'. Compared to other Linux distros, Ubuntu really requires very little tweaking. However you are free to tweak Ubuntu to your hearts content to customize it any which way you want if you so desire or just let it run off its default settings. You have this freedom with Linux.
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Interesting...no commentary on the "copying" that Linux has done here...
 
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danibbler said:
Interesting...no commentary on the "copying" that Linux has done here...
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Never had any interest in those 'touch' features really.
Keyboard and mouse suffices for me. FWIW was playing around with an HP PC with a 21" LCD touch screen monitor the other day for the first time and thought the 'touch' monitor was weird but it worked fine with W7.

Stealing features from each other has been the standard for years with the usual case being M$ & Mac stealing ideas from the Open source camp.
 
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Don said:
Isn't it Linux under the hood of MacOS?
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LOL!
Yes and NO.
Mac runs a Unix based OS that is capable of running many Linux apps and software and is related to Linux.
This is why the running joke in the Linux community has always been their claim Mac is really just another Linux distro only you have to pay for it....
 
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WoodPeckr said:
LOL!
Yes and NO.
Mac runs a Unix based OS that is capable of running many Linux apps and software and is related to Linux.
This is why the running joke in the Linux community has always been their claim Mac is really just another Linux distro only you have to pay for it....
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We understand your plight, really we do.
 
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Lol!!!

A pix of how an Apple addicted fanboi has to get by after blowing all his money buying all his pricey overpriced Apple 'i' toys???....
 
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WoodPeckr said:
LOL!
Yes and NO.
Mac runs a Unix based OS that is capable of running many Linux apps and software and is related to Linux.
This is why the running joke in the Linux community has always been their claim Mac is really just another Linux distro only you have to pay for it....
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Actually, Mac OS X is a blood relation to UNIX while Linux is more like a friend of the family.
 
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danibbler said:
Actually, Mac OS X is a blood relation to UNIX while Linux is more like a friend of the family.
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Look, if it wasn't for that long forgotten Indian mathematician who invent the Zero, none of this would have happened. Does anyone know his name? I didn't think so. Therefore all this 'they were first' and 'it was theirs first' is all a bullshit pissing contest that really means SFA. Get over it. Pay little more attention the next time you see a zero and a 1 standing next to each other and think about that Indian nerd.
 
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LOL!!!
Thought Zero was invented by some Persian dude?.....
 
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LOL!
Well have to admit the inventor of the Zero never concerned me as much as you....
 
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WoodPeckr said:
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Well have to admit the inventor of the Zero never concerned me as much as you....
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Well it was always good to have a digit to put in a place where things added up to 10, but until then people just left a space and only thought in terms of a decimal system. Hell, we could have been Babylonian and do all our arithmetic calculations on the bases of 60. We still do it sometimes today. Think, seconds, minutes, hours and compasses.
 
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LOL!
Metric is easier for sure but sadly here in the USA many remain too 'challenged' and still resist the move to metric.....

Farking Challenged Conservatives who still cry at the thought of going metric....
 
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