I would prefer Android to focus completely on Mobile devices first, before venturing out to other hardwares. If Android can run on all kinds of phones from Smart to Dumb, and can keep its cost extremely affordable (insanely high priced devices obviously can co-exist), then we got a winner here.
take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://linkedin.com/in/tellibitz +91-9840348914 http://androidrocks.in - Android Consulting. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:44 AM, LB Coder <[email protected]> wrote: > Your thinking is all wrong. Android is a great operating system, but it is > definitely best at home on phones or other similarly starved devices. There > are no benefits that I can see for running it on a netbook, laptop, or > desktop because there are BETTER OPTIONS. > > You have an acer aspire one. Thats great. So do I. One of the things I love > about it is the 8 hour battery life. Yeah, mine has the 6 cell battery and > the SSD drive. > > From what I can tell from your post, you most likely got gipped into one > that came with a microshaft OS installed. You are by NO MEANS restricted to > this. You clearly understand the security benefits of running a linux OS. > > So why don't you? > There are as many linux distributions out there as there are ideas about > what a distro should include, and most of them will run on your aspire one! > Android is a LINUX DISTRIBUTION. It is a highly customized distro, targeted > at very small devices, particularly phones. At the opposite end of the > spectrum is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a very robust operating system for > servers and workstations. Now we're not trying to shoehorn RHEL into a > phone, so don't try to shove Android into a server... or anything else that > it is not suited for. Take your netbook and find the operating system that > is MOST SUITED to YOUR USE of THAT HARDWARE. > > One of the criteria I had when purchasing a netbook was that its purchase > did NOT benefit microshaft (i.e. I am unwilling to buy their licenses), so I > selected one that shipped with linux. The particular distro didn't matter to > me since I am inclined to change things around anyways. Aspire one ships > from the factory with a distribution called "linpus". Its cute, but not very > practical (all it could do was skype and firefox). So I deleted it and > installed Fedora 10 -- www.redhat.com/fedora . > > If for some unfathomable reason you want to keep microshaft installed on > that machine, you can run F10 off a USB-disk -- > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo -- there are a lot of > details on that page, but the meat is that you just run the program called > "liveusb-creator" and follow the prompts. > > Here's some general info on running Fedora on Aspire One: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One > > > I believe that if you do this, you will be much happier than you would be > with android on it. > > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, al <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Even before we have such things as "netbooks", "mobile devices", >> "smartphones"... there was the "PDA" or personal digital assistant, >> then there was the pda-phone and mobile phones. IMHO, these terms are >> just marketing terms made up by the marketing departments of the >> companies of these products. >> >> For instance, the present day pda-phone or mobile device phone is just >> an outgrowth of the original pda "concept" where one keeps their >> contacts, tasks and notes in this device, and then someone thought it >> might be "neat" to combine this pda device with a cellphone device... >> To me, a clear evidence of this is the Windows Mobile Phone, even >> after going through a number of upgrades, it still cannot disguise >> this legacy that the mobile phone portion was just a "add-on-thing" >> and not a fully integrated part of the device. Where the phone >> capability of the device seamlessly interacts with the other apps in >> the device... >> >> However, I feel that android should not be limited by the platform it >> runs on, whether this be a mobile device, a smartphone, a netbook, a >> notebook or even a desktop PC... >> >> Not to veer too far from the topic at hand, my interest of having >> android running on a netbook, actually stems from a more selfish >> reason. I own an acer aspire one, and would like to have the option of >> booting and running my netbook on android from a usb thumb drive, for >> those occasions when I am connecting to a public wifi network, maybe >> just to quickly check and send emails or I might need to check >> something in the internet. Although, the security on android (being >> linux-based) is not a 100% assurance from viruses and malwares, I >> would still feel a little more at ease in these situations if I am >> using android... >> >> In fact, there are some people who claim that they have been able to >> run android on their respective netbooks, like the following link >> "http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on- >> an-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/<http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/android-installed-and-running-on-%0Aan-eee-pc-in-a-matter-of-hours/> >> " >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
