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Dear Fellows, |
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Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for |
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Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland) |
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in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11 |
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protocal, so that desktop applications can run on the smartphone. |
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The idea is cool, but not new. The idea is general to all android |
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devices, while Canonical is binding the concept with its own new device. |
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The project is developed underground by Canonical, so far nothing, not |
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to say repository, is available except advertisements and the call for |
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people to donate. |
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As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project, |
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Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android |
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devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical |
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difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead |
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of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4]. |
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I feel sorry to the behavior of Canonical. We, people from the Gentoo |
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community, can show the general public what is the cooperative way to |
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develop desktop/smartphone hybrid to benefit all. |
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I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone |
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and tablets. It would be nice to find out a solution based on Gentoo for |
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desktop/smartphone hybrid *before* Canonical's release. |
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Comments welcome. |
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Cheers, |
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Benda |
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1. http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android |
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2. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge |
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3. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html |
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4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29 |
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