-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/2013 01:21 AM, 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. >
You know what I've done with this kind of thing already. I am at your disposal. If you want to publicly embarass canonical by releasing something awesome (either first or better) I can find the time to help. You know where to find me ;-) - -Zero > 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 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSDbFuAAoJEKXdFCfdEflKiJMQAKlQtLQUBsWeCqI4YgYOsmX0 x9laSSQARdmfLC7Gt57ab4GBveZmwPAVjKi3KkIHZ3rUDrC2UehMYM/x8OMygLbJ tc8yec60KzG0AZ2GKcdvb7pZu1fM+gzw6qpFItqZ89YL/KN5ECdyNeTQz14QGuLY SzckuuDI8KO3WlFw8sQHic3gTd+r2+WSMNTvj1ln9M91sYjKy40Um6c6z/rpjJsm osHfKYKpiuGNEwAa/ptRwcxPmLWWyp0m38zl43vrBli+esHQYbS+zK1tX/xh4dxY Sj7CZc5DgUTfEmRL50U+gGx9wcQ5oMrVT7r4WK8I1O42tnoTQuRSqbNhYbrCHUCr ionaFAE4oKjJEOnjBwC9zA7p2OBJmtO9aXkQ5Wr51TtWN8xMC3wYCPCJgsy1Vo0H fjECKuoB1zNrhlYeDFAD13f5+2nYsxK3Y0qp1w4/KHsaZkqgg4acsF3hjGE8cMFR 3Z+72bebAi0QbgmFp1pY3BurptypvNuHpU+ErYEO8uI5+TwUrc4d6k6kvm353D/3 u6Xk5h74Xex/H4N33pytnYBxV6sNoMQiE3I3GCwe0y7LeZuWbe1Yz1PBjZULwW0u Uw8WAkPxPMHGDhB/78BLoO6Oc2JTjFA6ps5MKz/AaBjgv7u/HQ+tlPt9lHGhRCYm bmEznQB+UdpH9mI6DKTk =ZPJo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
