From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 00:10:55 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 739AA106566C for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219388FC12 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42B685C22 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:24:28 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F71058D.2010203@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:10:53 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 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> <20120326232921.GA11938@hemlock.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20120326232921.GA11938@hemlock.hydra> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:10:55 -0000 On 03/27/12 09:29, Chad Perrin wrote: > 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. LOL. Thats my issue exactly, but its handy for a smartphone... It does make me wonder what a FBSD version of a similar appliance would be like? > > >> 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. It wasn't. More to dispute what the OP said actually :) > > >> 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. > I would... time is the issue though. This is a long term goal.