Hello there, I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, since one of the main trouble would be driver development and kde is a desktop environment that doesn't treat hardware that close.
Also, from your email, you leave to intend that you'll be producing your own hardware for desktop and laptops. I think it would be better to use already developed hardware with good opensource drivers. Intel graphics, for example, has no proprietary drivers, just open. Don't know if it helps, just my thoughts. Also I think Aaron is working on Udoo, an open hardware arm board. Maybe he has a good opinion to share. :) Claudio Il 08/feb/2014 02:24 "CS DBA" <cs_...@consistentstate.com> ha scritto: > Hi All; > > It seems to me that the "marriage" that Microsoft & Apple enjoy per > hardware designed for their software gives them a huge advantage. I see > that the Linux community is quite good at coming up with drivers, software, > etc for hardware after the fact. > > I wonder, what could be accomplished if a Linux based distro had the same > advantage? I'm in the early stages of researching just such a company. > > We'll be setting up some infrastructure around community involvement and > feedback, however I'd be interested in any initial feedback you all have. > > I'm thinking that the OS would remain fully open source (GPL) and we'd > license the hardware specs in the same way. > > Then we could release laptops & desktops that truly have an advantage. The > company would couple a solid Linux distro with it's own tweaks (polish & > branding & such) coupled with our own hardware. > > I suspect that instead of waiting for the current HW vendors to release > new hardware and then quickly figure out how to interface with it we can > put effort into polish and functionality and quickly become the trend > setters for MS and Apple to follow. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks in advance > > Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to >>> unsubscribe << >>> >>
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