On 08/18/2013 11:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 13/08/13 08:21, heroxbd wrote:
Dear Fellows,
Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for
Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland)
in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11
protocal, so that desktop applications can run on the smartphone.
[...]
I feel sorry to the behavior of Canonical. We, people from the Gentoo
community, can show the general public what is the cooperative way to
develop desktop/smartphone hybrid to benefit all.
Note that Canonical, if their project succeeds, it going to ship actual
devices. It's not just going to deliver a hack, but rather a real,
supported, ready to be used device.
No Gentoo project could possibly offer a real alternative to this.
As long as Android is shipped on a large percentage of devices though,
there can be a target audience for people who want to use gentoo-prefix
on those devices. Imagine something like Terminal IDE [1] (which bundles
a prefix of its own) having the power of gentoo-prefix at its disposal.
[1]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spartacuside
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Thanks,
Zac
