Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-10-03 Thread heroxbd
Hey Chris, Chris Reffett writes: > Indeed I have. If you want to start such a project, I would certainly > be interested in joining. Plasma Active is basically untested because > I don't have a mobile device with Gentoo and installing it on a normal > computer leads to display sizing issues, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-10-03 Thread heroxbd
Hey Alexey, Alexey Mishustin writes: > My rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 is also ready to receive and to test this > kind of Gentoo. Sorry for being slow. I made it finally. Would you like to test it on your favorite Galaxy S2? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball Also, feel f

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-18 Thread 颜林林
It sounds very interesting! I would like to try that for testing in future. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:21 PM, 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 para

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread heroxbd
Dear Arun, Arun Raghavan writes: > None of these worked for you? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install > > I believe there were efforts to port to arbitrary non-Nexus devices as > well. Ah, get to understand what you have meant. I was not talking about replacing mobile devices with a GNU/Linux,

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread Alexey Mishustin
2013/8/17 heroxbd : > Alexey Mishustin writes: > >> My rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 is also ready to receive and to test this >> kind of Gentoo. Will be important the version of Android installed? > > No, it would be agnostic to Android versions. > > CPU of Galaxy S2 belongs to armv7a hardfloat, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 17 August 2013 16:28, heroxbd wrote: > Arun Raghavan writes: > >> There are images available for this, btw, if you want to see how it >> works and poke around. I'd seen some repositories, but don't know if >> there's enough public to do your own build. > > I am very interested in such an image

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread heroxbd
Arun Raghavan writes: > There are images available for this, btw, if you want to see how it > works and poke around. I'd seen some repositories, but don't know if > there's enough public to do your own build. I am very interested in such an image. Would you please dig out a link for me? I search

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread heroxbd
"Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" writes: > 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 ;-) That's gre

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread heroxbd
Alexey Mishustin writes: > My rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 is also ready to receive and to test this > kind of Gentoo. Will be important the version of Android installed? No, it would be agnostic to Android versions. CPU of Galaxy S2 belongs to armv7a hardfloat, which is our main release target. J

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread heroxbd
"Andreas K. Huettel" writes: > while I won't have the time to contribute much, I would like to tell you that > this is definitely a very cool and worthwhile project! I think you should > make > a project page and sign yourself up as team lead immediately... :) Thank you, Andreas. I've started

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-17 Thread heroxbd
Samuli Suominen writes: > Does gpe-base/* and gpe-utils/* relate to this at all? Somehow. Just as Plasma Activity, it could be used as a GUI but not necessarily. Benda

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-16 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 13 August 2013 10:51, 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 a

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-15 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-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

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-15 Thread Alexey Mishustin
2013/8/14 heroxbd : > Daniel Campbell writes: > >> I'm not a developer but this project's existence would motivate me to >> get a compatible smartphone and test this new Gentoo version on it, >> assuming it's also capable of standard phone calls and texts, etc. > > This assumption certainly holds

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-14 Thread heroxbd
"Paweł Hajdan, Jr." writes: > Sounds good. Note that it doesn't need to be set up as "against > Canonical". Just do the best thing for the users. Thanks. I'd take your advice. >> I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone >> and tablets. It would be nice to find out a

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-14 Thread heroxbd
Daniel Campbell writes: > I'm not a developer but this project's existence would motivate me to > get a compatible smartphone and test this new Gentoo version on it, > assuming it's also capable of standard phone calls and texts, etc. This assumption certainly holds firm. It is firstly a phone a

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Pavel Kazakov
Hi Benda, Great idea! I would definitely be interested in joining. Regards, Pavel On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:21 PM, 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) > i

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Chris Reffett
Indeed I have. If you want to start such a project, I would certainly be interested in joining. Plasma Active is basically untested because I don't have a mobile device with Gentoo and installing it on a normal computer leads to display sizing issues, but I welcome any suggestions or bug reports yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Benda, while I won't have the time to contribute much, I would like to tell you that this is definitely a very cool and worthwhile project! I think you should make a project page and sign yourself up as team lead immediately... :) Chris Reffett from KDE team has done already a lot of work on p

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/12/13 10:21 PM, heroxbd wrote: > 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 out

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Ben de Groot
On 13 August 2013 13:21, heroxbd wrote: > Dear Fellows, > > 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. I would be interested in such a pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-13 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 08/13/2013 12:21 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 ap

[gentoo-dev] desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans against Ubuntu edge

2013-08-12 Thread heroxbd
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