Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:29:21 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet Message-ID: <20120326232921.GA11938@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:07:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On 03/27/12 01:42, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > >I think the point of the initial email to start this thread was to see if > >there were people in the community with an interest in working on this > >project, and might actually be a fairly logical step toward an effort to > >"find a 'guru'" to work on it. > > Actually I think the point of the email was to prop up the member > numbers on the site. The platform itself is just an ordinary aPad > which can be hacked. As for the open source community interest, well > it already runs linux natively- android- so not entirely sure what > the fuss is about (might explain the population there). Android is not the same as a full-featured Unix-like OS. It's a miserably underpowered half-measure, whose only redeeming feature is that it's not Apple iOS or MS WP7. There's a bit of a difference, there. . . . not that I much care about tablets per se, right now, though it would be nice if I could get a ThinkPad X-series tablet-laptop working with FreeBSD. I just wouldn't equate Android with a general-purpose Unix-like OS, even if that OS uses a Linux kernel and gets most of the userland subtly wrong. > > If anyone was interested in porting FreeBSD to tablets there are > plenty of dev kits out there to play with; and if the cost is > excessive then grab an aPad off eBay for $50. I'm not sure how that disputes what I said. > > To explain the major hurdle in porting to a tablet, you'd need to > probably find an alternative windowing solution then Xorg (low > memory, especially in vivaldi)- I'm not 100% sure what iOS and > Android use. Might be interesting... Yeah, there could be some real challenges there. The question is whether someone with the wherewithal to do the work would find the challenge attractive. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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