Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hello all: El 27/01/11 23:10, Dietmar Schmunkamp escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.01.2011 06:13, schrieb Dave McGuire: On 1/26/11 11:59 PM, rickman wrote: BTW, is Android multitasking or is it single tasking like the iPad OS? Android is layered atop Linux.

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 13:23 +0100, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: I was asked this too some time ago, because, I view that tablets and other devices (like e-readers with double screen) with Android/Maemo/Meego are going to users, and is a opportunity for the free world to hit first. Perhaps

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread Bob Paddock
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Perhaps I'm being short-sighted, but I don't see a great potential for serious EDA work on phone sized devices. Even if they get the screen-resolution high enough, the size is very small for design work, and the input

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 09:37 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Perhaps I'm being short-sighted, but I don't see a great potential for serious EDA work on phone sized devices. Even if they get the screen-resolution high enough,

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread Bob Paddock
Still - most places I went to do a repair, I'd want to take a laptop or at least a tablet. Getting out that remote without a computer seems like as well thought out as going to do said repair and forgetting to pack your soldering iron. Some places like Coal Mines (Been there, to many times),

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.01.2011 15:42, schrieb Peter Clifton: On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 09:37 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Perhaps I'm being short-sighted, but I don't see a great potential for serious

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-30 Thread rickman
On 1/30/2011 9:58 AM, Bob Paddock wrote: Still - most places I went to do a repair, I'd want to take a laptop or at least a tablet. Getting out that remote without a computer seems like as well thought out as going to do said repair and forgetting to pack your soldering iron. Some places like

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-29 Thread Martin Kupec
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:59:54PM -0500, rickman wrote: Tablet PCs are going to be taking off big time over the next year or two. This is the ideal platform that I have wanted for a long time. But for now at least, they don't run Windows or even Linux. They run the Android OS on ARM

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-27 Thread Matthew Sager
Is this something that would be easy to port to? Anyone know much about developing for table PCs? I have just looked into the android OS just a little because I got a new droid phone. [1]http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html The short version is that

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-27 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.01.2011 06:13, schrieb Dave McGuire: On 1/26/11 11:59 PM, rickman wrote: BTW, is Android multitasking or is it single tasking like the iPad OS? Android is layered atop Linux. The iPad OS (also the iPhone OS, called iOS) is