Hi, You suggest we should rewrite all the linux apps in the world? >
No, I suggest to look at the SHR and Android for FR from above and in perspective, what is the best application of effort of 1.75-3 developers to maximally effective get a system that will have following features: * Excellent UI (from Android) * Full opkg-compatible open Linux system that one can ssh into and have more-or-less familiar Linux environment (From SHR) * Incrementally upgradeable system (SHR) * Pool of user-friendly programs (A) * Have a way to run native linux applications (albeit with ugly and inconsistent interface). Network transparency would be a plus here. (SHR) * unrestricted access for hackers to the internals of the phone (SHR). If things are left the way it is, my crystall ball says, neither SHR nor Android would be able to save FR platform from death in a year or so for following reasons: * There are already only 1.75-3 developers on SHR and about the same on Android. Neither team has enough expertise to fix kernel bugs already. * There is no killer applications programs with SHR-on-FR that would attract users or developers and no differentiating factors in either platform. * The FR hardware is already outdated and in a year the Google-subsidized phones and iPhone would take the rest of the users and after that - the developers. The factor would negatively affect Android distro for the FR as well. * There are other linux based efforts (both hw and sw) to shoehorn desktop linux applications onto a phone, so it also can no longer be the differentiating factor. I think you already guessed that I see an small chance in resuscitation of the FR platform in hybrid merge of SHR into Android. -- Arie
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