From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 23:29:23 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08601106564A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:29:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy8-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy8.bluehost.com [IPv6:2605:dc00:100:2::a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B75418FC12 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 6783 invoked by uid 0); 26 Mar 2012 23:29:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy8.bluehost.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2012 23:29:22 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=0zc8f+aOL/1f54NDqUn2jd2tyIAMuUDBbKfwlixRG3U=; b=C3bfvenuMxDpHG44lIpMAcOObKE1keNNy62c1YwNCQgpUJ0f3WJ1KIBWedpMxcpEz2LamSAGXwXbzxdctYkAj+xpml3sTZbU7jhUyMN9aUQrNZChMAS6u3XSuo0IJsNC; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SCJLl-0005nI-P0 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:29:21 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:29:21 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120326232921.GA11938@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:29:23 -0000 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 ]