On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > I'm hoping that in future Android grows a userbase plugging their phone > into a USB hub with hdmi adapter, mouse, and keyboard (or chromecasting > to their TV with bluetooth keyboard and mouse) that can actually pop up > a terminal window. I'd like android devices to grow into the workstation > space and organically displace PC hardware. Your suggested change works > against that goal, when you _do_ have a terminal size, it's good to use > it...
There are attempts to create X86 ports of Android that *can* be used that way. They are all alpha at this point. One of the things I've been watching for a while is convergence, and the idea that you'll run a flavor of the *same* OS on any device you may have. Ironically, Windows seems closest, with Windows on the server, desktop, laptop, notebook, tablet, and phone. OS/X and iOS are increasingly converging, and seeing OS/X subsumed into iOS and iOS running on everything Apple makes would not be a surprise. Linux is the odd man out, given that the Linux kernel itself runs on almost everything, but there are more different and largely incompatible distros than I can keep track of. Android being the one-size-fits-all Linux distro that unifies the Linux space seems to be the best bet for convergence there. I have a good terminal app on my Android tablet (Jack Palevich's Terminal Emulator), and I look forward to a version of Toybox than can make Busybox go away. I regularly use an external keyboard, and can use a mouse if I plug in a hub. Given the steadily increasing power and decreasing size of components, I don't expect it to be long before your phone *is* your computing device, that you carry around as a phone, and plug into a docking station with KB, mouse, monitor, NAS and the like and *poof!*, it's your workstation. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
