Re: [jornada] Ubuntu, some people interested in ARM/handhelds

Greetings,

Thought I would give a quick piece of my mind on the subject.
I basicly agree with Adam in which direction the linux pda's should go.

Despite what you run on your pda all users have the same requirements, they
want usability and speed. Both of which is better satisfied with an
Openembedded/familiar approach rather than porting a large scale
distribution. I would hope that the general community would work to improve
Openembedded rather than setting up specific distro based branches that most
often die out within a year or so.

My vision for linux handhelds is a limited set of programs that are small,
quick and do their job well.

Best wishes
Kristoffer
www.jlime.com

>From: Adam Pribyl <covex_at_ahoj.fsik.cvut.cz>
>CC: jornada_at_handhelds.org
>Subject: Re: [jornada] Ubuntu, some people interested in ARM/handhelds
>Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:18:11 +0200 (CEST)
>
>On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Mauricio Hernandez Z. wrote:
>
>>Maybe, and please, just maybe -I am not considering any complaints from
>>some Debian people, nor from some Ubuntu people, who usually discuss
>>about who is better!- there could be some joint collaborative
>>efforts/work ?
>
>I do not know if this list is the best for this question. This one is
>dedicated for HP jornadas problems. The fact that for jornada we have
>working debian/gentoo/whatever is not result of any coordinated work, but
>some kind of side-effects of that these distributions produce arm binaries
>and we have kernel and bootloader running. If ubuntu is recompiled for arm
>then it should run the same way with modified kernel as anything else from
>familiar to jlime is running.
>
>But the power of any PDA handheld lies in the special apps and environments
>that are important for PDA users and these are completely different story
>than giant desktop apps - these are managed under Familiar or OpenEmbedded
>project, which is/should be soon, I believe, the base for most kinds of PDA
>linux distros.
>
>>As I said, I'd be VERY happy to run Edubuntu on any PDA/Handheld so
>>teachers and students can easily and get benefits outside lab walls.
>
>I do not think running Ubuntu like desktop is feasible on any PDA. PDA is
>not a notebook.
>
>>Now, of course, Edubuntu is Ubuntu + LTSP version + lots of edu-apps (so
>>far, KDE apps and GNOME apps). AFAIK, the LTSP version and the edu-apps
>>could be ported to ARM based Debian, but a joined effort is lot better
>>than many wheels designs ;)
>
>More I would appreciate is effort to make desktop apps comunicate properly
>with those for handhelds.
>
>>--
>>Cordialmente,
>>
>>Mauricio Hernandez Z.
>
>All above is only my opinion.
>
>
>Adam Pribyl
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