Dear John and Mike,
Am Montag, den 23.05.2011, 15:47 -0400 schrieb John A. Sullivan III: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 20:42 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > On Mo 23 Mai 2011 20:04:16 CEST "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > > > > > Hello, all. We've received a number of queries about running X2Go on an > > > iPAD. My understanding to this point is that the absolute fundamentals > > > are missing. However, I was recently sent the following: > > > > > [...] > > > > > Given the above, what would it take to get X2Go to run on an iPAD using > > > i-SSH? Is anyone interested if giving it a run? It's definitely outside > > > of our skill set. Thanks - John > > > > iPad - Test Platform > > -------------------- > > I cannot speak for Alex, but I remember the last time when a major > > problem about X2go development for Mac was the loss (theft) of Alex's > > MacBook. > > > > With an iPad the situation is probably similar: no hardware - i.e. > > iPad - to test on available at all. > > > > Would it be a possibility to provide an iPad for testing/development? > > > > AppStore and GPL software > > ------------------------- > > There also has been an issue around AppStore and GPL in January 2011: > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/8046 > > > > If there will be an X2goClient for iPad in the future it will surely > > need a distribution pathway. How would that work? (I am not at all > > familiar with Macs, but may I bring up the question nonetheless?). > > At the least, we can probably come up with a test user. I'm not sure if > we can come up with a test iPAD; it's possible. Good point about the > distribution. I'd imagine it has to go through the iStore. I don't > know if the iSSH fellow would be interested in bundling the X2Go client. > That would save us having to deal with the iStore but also remove the > possible revenue stream. I do not know if there is any free / open > source mechanism within the Apple ecosystem. > > I'll also push back to some of the folks who are asking us and see if > they have any suggestions. XBMC [1] was ported to Apple hardware [2]. To get it installed I think you need to jailbreak the system somehow and then you can use the package manager (`apt-get`(?)) to install the software. Thanks, Paul [1] http://xbmc.org/ [2] http://xbmc.org/theuni/2011/02/06/xbmc-update-for-ideviceappletv2/
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