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ALSA itself has supported Bluetooth & the like for quite some time, but most userspace applications used ALSA in a way that didn't work (well) with Bluetooth, and those same applications also didn't...

The GPL does never apply to the author of the code, because the GPL grants (extra) rights to non-authors on top of the legal rights they might already have (things like fair use, citation, the right...

You forget that 64-bit pointers need twice as much RAM/cache size as 32-bit pointers, and because of that there are also differences in instruction size. It's very well possible that a tight loop...

I'd expect browsers (or more specifically: web rendering engines) to be hit by that significantly, considering the huge object trees they have to manipulate.

On PAE, each application can use only 4 GiB of virtual memory (the system can use more). There can be speed advantages in some cases (more & larger registers, larger vectors). There are also some...

Even on netbooks that have a 64-bit CPU you probably don't want a 64-bit OS, as they usually only have 1 GiB of RAM (and part of that is unavailable because it's used by the GPU).

AFAIK the Boost library packages haven't implemented multiarch yet, but once somebody does that, it should be possible to install i386/amd64/armhf/etc. packages in parallel... (I'd expect more work...

AFAIK Canonical still employs several development teams to work on Launchpad (the teams work in a rotation on either new features, bugfixes, etc.), a QA team, and last year hired a new community...

You forget MySQL (and its derivatives like MariaDB, Percona, etc.).

Fluendo uses GStreamer for everything they do, so I assume they are quite involved...

Hint: they need porting to Gtk3 to run on Wayland too...

Actually, the first high level language (much higher level than C—but then again, before C there was already COBOL, LISP, FORTRAN, etc.) was designed in the first half of the 1940s (so even before...

A satellite of Earth is an object that is in an orbit around Earth.

There are 2 types of satellites: natural (like the Moon) and artificial (launched into orbit by humans). So Mir clearly was an...

C doesn't have direct language support (as in "syntactic sugar") for those things, but it doesn't prevent you from using (some of) them, and that is what happens in Gtk, which is based on the GObject...

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gambas3

Both Gtk & Qt are OOP toolkits, so I don't see how that changes things in that respect...?

AFAIK, most of the patches that are not upstreamed are either not useful upstream and/or upstream doesn't want them.

With SiS it might depend on the BIOS/VBE revision (I once had two identical machines but with a different BIOS revision, and it worked on one of them but not the other).

The did improve support for some file formats.

There have always been several office suites for linux (some of them closed source though).