So, What are you decided about hardware? What tablet will I must to buy for tests?
2012/2/1 brian mullan <bmullan.m...@gmail.com> > I've been waiting for an ubuntu port to the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. > > I've rooted mine and am currently running the Android 4.x Ice Cream > Sandwich release and its really a good tablet with that OS. > > But there is a huge interest in the Nook Color user world for an Ubuntu > release that can be installed. > > > liputing.com/2012/01/nook-tablet-hacks-flash-a-custom-rom-or-boot-ubuntu-to-restore-os-1-4-0.html > > Nook Color tablet is only $250, its dual core omap4, 1G memory, 16G > internal storage & can add upto 32G microSSD > and has the POWERVR SGX540 GPU processor and supports both Open GLES 1.1 > and 2.0. > > https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/product/nook-tablet-specs.html > > I had ubuntu running on my single core nook color in chroot and it worked > ok but that was 1/2 the cpu & 1/2 the ram of > the new nook color tablet. > > There was also a great Phoronix article this past week on Ubuntu & ARM: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_armhf&num=1 > > Brian > > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Mitchell Reese < > mitch...@curiouslegends.com.au> wrote: > >> Thanks Alan, look forward to seeing which direction things go. M >> >> Curious Mail - Sent via Linux >> >> Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: >> >> >Hi Mitchell, >> > >> >On 30/01/12 00:29, Mitchell Reese wrote: >> >> Wow. So that means then, that after Mark Shuttleworth's announcement >> >> that Ubuntu is coming to tablets, the 'officially' recommended way at >> >> the moment to join in with development is to buy a tablet that doesn't >> >> support, and quite possibly will never reliably support, hardware >> >> accelerated graphics? I find that disappointing, to say the least. >> >> >> > >> >My recommendation was based on the fact that I know it's possible to run >> >Ubuntu on one of these devices. At the moment the Ubuntu Tablet is >> >something Canonical are exploring, we don't have a lot of things nailed >> >down, including final hardware. The Transformer is good enough right now >> >to run Ubuntu, although not perfectly, it's good enough for a >> >development target during our explorations. >> > >> >> What this means is that: >> >> a. People will be unable to try anything with 12.04 until it's ported >> to >> >> this tablet >> > >> >I don't understand this. People have successfully installed 11.10 on >> >Transformers, and had some success with hardware acceleration. >> > >> > >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/How_to_install_Ubuntu_on_an_Asus_EEEPad_Transformer >> > >> >It's far from perfect but people in the community are working on the >> >niggling issues by the look of it. >> > >> >> b. We are then 'stuck' with using the Unity 2D interface. There are >> >> potentially some great things about this, but personally, I'm a fan of >> >> the regular version currently shipping that requires graphics >> acceleration. >> > >> >Unity 2D uses GL acceleration too you know :) Just less of it. I too >> >like Unity, but in Ubuntu both Unity and Unity 2D are first class >> citizens. >> > >> >> c. We will most likely be developing using the modified kernel required >> >> for the transformer tablet. Admittedly I don't know much about kernel >> >> development, but this doesn't seem to bode well for the future of this >> >> project. Needing to have a modified kernel to get something to run >> >> generally points to it not being officially supported by the main >> >> project... >> >> >> > >> >Modified kernels will almost certainly be required for _any_ ARM based >> >device right now. That's a fact of life. >> > >> >> I would really like to see Canonical, and Ubuntu, succeed in the tablet >> >> market. For this to happen though, I would expect there to be some form >> >> of reasonable development device available in the near future. Alan, >> are >> >> you able to drop us any hints as to whether this will happen or not? At >> >> the very least, a roadmap from Canonical about tablet development would >> >> be appreciated. Thanks. >> >> >> > >> >We don't have a roadmap I can show you. We're just in the early stages >> >of exploring the tablet market and devices and have a very small team >> >looking at this. As Mark outlined in his blog post we have aspirations >> >to be on tablets, but it's very early days for us. >> > >> >Cheers, >> >Al. >> > >> >-- >> >Alan Pope >> >Engineering Manager >> > >> >Canonical - Product Strategy >> >alan.p...@canonical.com >> >http://ubuntu.com/ >> > >> >-- >> >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >> >Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net >> >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >> >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >> Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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