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RHEL 6 for ARM Op 30-03-12 07:51, 夜神 岩男 schreef: > > --- On Fri, 2012/3/30, Nataraj <incoming-cen...@rjl.com> wrote: > >> I have poked around in google and have seen a number of youtube videos, >> but my question is whether anyone really has linux running on any kind >> of tablet or tablet PC device in such a way that the touch screen can be >> used productively and it won't take a month to get it running? >> Initially the two applications that are of most interest to me would be >> a good web browser (maybe chromium) and thunderbird. I would also like >> to have a decent on screen keyboard which could be used to ssh to >> servers in an emergency. >> >> I've seen instructions for booting linux on various devices, but many >> people doing this are using keyboards and not touchscreens. >> >> Do applications like thunderbird have to be modified in order to work >> well with a touch screen or is just getting a working driver for the >> touchpad sufficient? >> >> If anyone has any experience with this I would appreciate knowing what >> hardware your running on and what linux distro/desktop environment you >> use. I've been interested in devices like the ASUS EP121 which is a >> dual core I5, so it wouldn't be necessary to have an ARM distribution. >> Also the newest Asus transformer prime (arm) which I think is about 2 >> months away sounds interesting. > Lots of people do this and lots of (most?) commercial tablet/smartphone > systems are based on Linux or a close cousin (Android and iOS come to > mind...). > > As far as non-commercial DIY tablet distros, there are distros and special > interest groups within larger distros that focus on this type of deployment. > > But none of them are CentOS, so I'm not sure why you pinged this mailinglist > -- though I think you'd probably find that CentOS installs just fine in most > cases, just remember to build whatever graphcs driver you need or your > experience might not be good. > > Go ask over at Fedora, Ubuntu and maybe Mint. Also check out MeeGo and > whatnot. > > As a side note, there is nothing magical about a touchscreen. Touchscreens > are just pointing devices like mice and touchpads as far as Linux is > concerned, but in this case it is a touchpad that you can see through to a > screen on the other side (there is a special case of location logic, of > course, so the pointer doesn't continue from last location, but this is a > normal case handled by X). So nothing special happens in an application to > make it "work with a touchscreen" because a touchscreen is just creating > mouse events the same way your normal mouse would do. The only problem with > touchscreens is that small icons are smaller than your finger (well, mine > anyway) and so you have to make the desktop a little cartoony to make things > work right. Gnome Shell in Fedora is actually not too bad to use with a > touchscreen, though it sucks horribly with a mouse IMO, and KDE with large > widgets is pretty easy as well. > > -IY > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
