Benda, while I won't have the time to contribute much, I would like to tell you that this is definitely a very cool and worthwhile project! I think you should make a project page and sign yourself up as team lead immediately... :)
Chris Reffett from KDE team has done already a lot of work on packaging Plasma Active, see http://plasma-active.org/ - it's in the KDE overlay but mostly untested so far. You might be interested! Best, Andreas > Dear Fellows, > > Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for > Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland) > in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11 > protocal, so that desktop applications can run on the smartphone. > > The idea is cool, but not new. The idea is general to all android > devices, while Canonical is binding the concept with its own new device. > > The project is developed underground by Canonical, so far nothing, not > to say repository, is available except advertisements and the call for > people to donate. > > As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project, > Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android > devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical > difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead > of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4]. > > I feel sorry to the behavior of Canonical. We, people from the Gentoo > community, can show the general public what is the cooperative way to > develop desktop/smartphone hybrid to benefit all. > > I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone > and tablets. It would be nice to find out a solution based on Gentoo for > desktop/smartphone hybrid *before* Canonical's release. > > Comments welcome. > > Cheers, > Benda > > 1. http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android > 2. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge > 3. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html > 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29 -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing
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