Am Samstag, 08. Februar 2014, 13.17:54 schrieb Claudio Desideri: > Hello there,
Morning too > 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. :) Yes, I think the Improv and Vivaldi hardware is the closest thing the orginal poster thinks of: http://dot.kde.org/2014/01/22/open-hardware-kde http://www.makeplaylive.com/#/open-hardware/improv griits Mario > 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 << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
