On 08/18/2013 11:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/08/13 08:21, heroxbd wrote: >> 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. >> >> [...] >> 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. > > Note that Canonical, if their project succeeds, it going to ship actual > devices. It's not just going to deliver a hack, but rather a real, > supported, ready to be used device. > > No Gentoo project could possibly offer a real alternative to this.
As long as Android is shipped on a large percentage of devices though, there can be a target audience for people who want to use gentoo-prefix on those devices. Imagine something like Terminal IDE [1] (which bundles a prefix of its own) having the power of gentoo-prefix at its disposal. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusrex.spartacuside -- Thanks, Zac
