On 13/08/13 08:21, heroxbd wrote:
Dear Fellows,
Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for
Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland)
in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11
protocal, so that desktop applications can run on the smartphone.
The idea is cool, but not new. The idea is general to all android
devices, while Canonical is binding the concept with its own new device.
The project is developed underground by Canonical, so far nothing, not
to say repository, is available except advertisements and the call for
people to donate.
As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project,
Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android
devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical
difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead
of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4].
I feel sorry to the behavior of Canonical. We, people from the Gentoo
community, can show the general public what is the cooperative way to
develop desktop/smartphone hybrid to benefit all.
I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone
and tablets. It would be nice to find out a solution based on Gentoo for
desktop/smartphone hybrid *before* Canonical's release.
Comments welcome.
Cheers,
Benda
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android
2. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
3. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
Does gpe-base/* and gpe-utils/* relate to this at all?
