On Tuesday 03 November 2009, daniele_athome wrote: > Hello to everybody! > I bought the Freerunner a few weeks ago, and I have mrmoku unstable in > microSD and Android on NAND. > I see the difference between these two operating systems every moment > I use them. > > I use google products, they are quite good, starting from gmail and > going through all the other web applications. I can't notice how > Android is "different" from SHR/Linux in this case. > > Altough I disagree with the choice of google to use Java as the > primary platform programming language, from my point of view Android > was made and born (and so "thought") to be used in embedded devices, > especially smartphones. Integration of the applications with the > global system UI, speed of application's startup, the very essential > but yet very useful features make me think that it is better than > "pure Linux". > > I'm a Linux follower (I like Linux so much that I made it my primary > instrument of work), and so I like thinking that Linux is running on > my phone. But these days I searched for distributions for the > Freerunner, and all I've found is GNU/Linux embedded and "forced to > fit" into the Freerunner. Meaning: many concepts such as desktop > panels, window managers, X server (what a waste of resources!!!!!), > widget toolkits, etc. they are all concepts for a desktop system, not > an embedded one! IMHO people are focusing on the wrong things. > It's ok that today smartphones should be multitasking, but not > multi-window: one user can do phisically one thing at a time. > > I'm seriously thinking of starting development of a new distribution > based on these concepts: no more adapted software from GNU/Linux; > everything should be written for the Freerunner only, or, at least, > very well ported to it (that is, porting program interface and > usability too). Much like google did with Android, but not like it (I > don't like Java ;-). > > Obviously I absolutely don't want to reinvent the wheel, many existing > libraries can be reused, but starting from the GUI and telephone > framework, all should be written from scratch and specifically for > Freerunner. And, above all, every application should follow *one and > only one* type of GUI and they all should follow the same UI > guidelines. > > I hope I broke out some curiosity in you about these aspects of what > is, IMHO, "forcibly" embedding Linux into smartphones. > Goodnight,
We clearly want very different things from our Freerunners! Good luck with your project. _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
