Re: Maemo Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-11-27 Thread tz
There are synergies between ubuntu and maemo. Nokia does bluetooth and wifi much better. Ubuntu has better package management and updates. It would be wonderful if the tablet was just a subset of Ubuntu-(mobile?)-for-ARM, perhaps with a few additions.

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-11-24 Thread Ian
Hi, Sure. However as for today there is no Ubuntu productized for ARM, so it's not as easy as it might look like for the average Ubuntu enthusiast. The Mojo project (funded by Nokia, btw) is investigating that Ubuntu ARM port. It is probably not very difficult to put a Maemo Ubuntu Hacker

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-28 Thread Quim Gil
ext Neil Jerram wrote: (And I could be right to suggest that maximizing community benefit is a path to commercial success Of course, why do you think Nokia hires (otherwise pretty useless) people like me? :) I completely agree that the UI requirement differences are very challenging. I

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-27 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Carsten, thank you very much for the time, energies and skills you are putting in the Deblet project, and in this thread. http://wiki.maemo.org/Mainstream_Linux_Alignment was born this morning in a humble corner of the wiki. Let's compile there all the bugs and enhancement requests relating to

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-27 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi Quim, 2008/10/24 Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the very good feedback! Answering to Till and Neil, who came up with requirements difficult to combine: mobile uniqueness versus API compatibility across several platforms. Many thanks for your response. It is clear that you

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream

2008-10-25 Thread David Greaves
Karl Eichwalder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: off on a related soapbox rant Nice things, but first try to get the basics right ;) I'd like to record GPS tracks while hiking for 7 x 8 hrs (= 1 week) without recharging. Then buy one of these:

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-25 Thread Carsten V. Munk
Quim Gil wrote: The strategy taken for Maemo is different, promoting the direct collaboration with the relevant upstream projects and going as far as possible with the open source way of working. Maemo is mostly based of open source components. Any manufacturer could take that code base and

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-24 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Quim Gil wrote: I don't know developers not willing to produce software that users find amazing and fall in love with. Ok, in fact I know some ;) but you get my point. Differentiation, in the way Nokia understands differentiation, is nothing we are looking for in this call. What

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-24 Thread jamie
Quoting Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ext Neil Jerram wrote: 2. The timescale is too short. Either people already have most of their time committed for the next few months, or they don't. I would venture that those with time on their hands are mostly unlikely to be people who could pull a

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream

2008-10-24 Thread Karl Eichwalder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: off on a related soapbox rant Nice things, but first try to get the basics right ;) I'd like to record GPS tracks while hiking for 7 x 8 hrs (= 1 week) without recharging. Downloading e-books from gutenberg.net should be a snap, and I'd like to page thru 2.500 pages

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Perl
Karl Eichwalder wrote: The reader application must not blank the screen while reading; I've the feeling fbreader lacks the feature maemo-mapper already knows about: if in full-screen mode, keep screen contents visible. If you have not done so already, it might be good to file a bug at the

Re: Maemo Linux mainstream

2008-10-24 Thread Ryan Abel
On Oct 24, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Karl Eichwalder wrote: The reader application must not blank the screen while reading; I've the feeling fbreader lacks the feature maemo-mapper already knows about: if in full-screen mode, keep screen contents visible. Hopefully as a toggle-able option, of