On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:49:38AM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote: > On 1 March 2011 08:05, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:19:55PM -0800, Matt Joyce wrote: > >> I disagree completely. Python's app stack is far too big and has > >> compilation problems on many toolchains. You would be increasing build > >> complexity and size. Which is a concern on multiple embedded targets. > > > > Speaking about embedded targets, what's the idea about Android > > smartphones? Dalvik, native applications, preferably? Some > > ssh and apt-get would be sure nice. > > The target for the Freedom Box is a plug device. These have > 800Mhz/1.2Ghz ARM processors and 512MB of RAM and at least 512MB
Yes, you're describing a low-end Android phone here. > storage. While I'm sure freedom could be achieved with an embedded > device and for some use cases would be a preferable platform that > isn't one the stated goals of this project. The only problem I see is Android specifics, which won't play nice with the Debian toolchain. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
