Jane See: http://www.tuxbrain.com/ for a nice, inexpensive ARM based inexpensive small notebook computer that runs Linux.
Be well, you will be missed. --- Ron K. Jeffries http://ronkjeffries.pen.i <http://ronkjeffries.pen.io/>o On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:49, Jane Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone for a last time, > > Recently, and from the beginning, I have felt that I may not be very useful > on this list. Many months later, I am rather sure of it. Despite my demands > and visions, I have little power to enforce or inact them, so ended up > frustrated. > In addition, since I found out about the Nanonote from the Jlime website, I > imagined it would have similar capabilities to the HP Jornadas, in > particular the J72X series. I have come to learn that it is not yet near > even the Jornada 690's capabilities, since even that 10+ year old handheld > has a crude web browser. What little software it has is well integrated, and > one can find it all easily by doing a little poking around. > I do think I have some potintially positive recommendations for the next > nanonote, if it gets produced. I do realize however, that for one thing I am > no engineer (I am somewhat thankful most of the time for this) and also I > realize that these will be mere suggestions, not necessarily to be listenend > to as if I am the project manager. That being said... > > We should aim for at LEAST a VGA (640x480) screen on the Ya. The Pandora > has a 4.3" 800x480 screen, so I know there should be something out > there...so many of my (and your) problems probably hinge on that QVGA screen > being more restrictive than other system components. > > Work out the keyboard issues. Since the Nanonote is international, we > should not assume that everyone who gets a Ben or Ya speaks English or even > uses qwerty. Either we make one option everyone is happy with, or we make > the Ya keyboard rearrangeable. > > Include pointing device on Ya and work on soft-mouse for Ben. If anyone can > do it, OpenSource guys should be able to...what happened to the whole Linux > gospel? > > Include mainstream networking solution. If theres no ethernet, then wifi, > provided there are no legal problems. > > And finally this one is small but it always annoyed me. Why do you call the > new versions of the OpenWRT OS "images"? To me it always made more sense to > call them "versions"... > > I did say that the things I love about the Nanonote are its small size, > complete lack of heat/fan issues, extremely good battery life, etc. However, > I feel those pros come at too great a cost right now, which is inability to > do what I wanted from the start. (full creative suite) Perhaps it was my > mistake for even stretching my imagination to imagine it possible on the > Ben, or even MU, so I am correctiong such a mistake by laying my Ben in its > case for a while to kill all my excuses for not producing. > > Another issue still unresolved to this day ,I believe, is the .mp3 > controversy. If the solution is just to never support them, then I can't see > the Nanonote replacing my laptop because as wrong or inefficient or patented > as .mp3's are, a bunch of them exist, even in the Free/Open Source world and > converting them all to .ogg's in my view is a waste of cpu power and time, > though I have done it in a few cases. > > Another unfortunate result of this "affair" with Qi-hardware is based on > misunderstanding.When I saw the Ben used a MIPS cpu, in concurrence with the > knowledge that that's what RMS uses in his laptop, I thought it was > desirable in itself as superior to the x86 chips. As it turns out, I email > RMS himself about how he likes his MIPS laptop (and his is 64 bit as I > recall) and he tells me that the video playback sucks! Imagine! So not only > is MIPS technically inferior, it also is no less good when it comes to > patents as Sebastien pointed out! Lose lose, and guess who the loser is? Me, > who had this idea that MIPS were such good people who copylefted their chip. > > Now as an artist, the idea of using a Free architecture as a political and > technical statement is alluring, but I don't know of any sufficiently mature > projects. It looks like MM's acceleration apabilities are impressive, but > they are live, I'm not sure how that would translate into say, vector > animation production. > > Even though I don't really like Intel, it looks like Linux shines the most > on the ol' x86 platform, which my laptop has, and which I have simply been > avoiding as if my Ben were better for, around 8 months now. > > Now in my spare time I guess I'll be scoping out other handhelds, versions > of Linux, etc. (btw have you all heard of angstrom Linux, it's what the > Pandora uses in hacked form, might it be useful to Qi?) > > Mainly I'll be producing content that I fully intend to share with Qi in > relevant ways, but Qi has notheg to do with them. > > I'll be hanging out in Blender, Synfig, Ktoon, LMMS, and many more! > > Here's to one less frustrated (albiet nerdy) girl sulking around the list! > > If I return, it will be in spirit, as a friend and room mate may make a new > account on the wiki with myself occasionally chiming in :) > > Thanks for the experience, best of luck with improving all the Qi-hardware! > > -Jane Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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