Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:10:53 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet Message-ID: <4F71058D.2010203@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20120326232921.GA11938@hemlock.hydra> References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120326232921.GA11938@hemlock.hydra>
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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.
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