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, -- daniele_athome _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
