On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:07 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 11:26:05 Mathias Uebelacker wrote:
> > wiki.ubuntu ist a good place but whats with a good structure?
<big snip>
>
> Just trying to understand the goals of the project. The Q1 would run regular
> Ubuntu just fine. (Xubuntu perhaps better) so why a special project for
> this. It's a standard PIII Celeron. with 512MB ram and a 40GB hdd...
It's all about getting a device with a similar form factor to enable
application framework and application development. The samsung screen
is a bit big, but not too big, and you have a lot of the other elements
(like a touchscreen) that allow us to start working on this stack and
enable some creative elements before better suited hardware arrives.
BTW, even with target hardware, you will have (relative to traditional
mobile devices) loads of resources so you absolutely can run normal
ubuntu. The problem is that a normal full desktop is horribly unusable
for this kind of form factor... not because the device will run too
slow, but that the usage model for full desktop makes all kinds of
assumptions that kill the experience on a small form factor device.
I tried using a full GNOME desktop on the original Samsung Q1. At best
it was a painful experience.
--rusty
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