Thanks Alan, look forward to seeing which direction things go. M Curious Mail - Sent via Linux
Alan Pope <alan.p...@canonical.com> wrote: >Hi Mitchell, > >On 30/01/12 00:29, Mitchell Reese wrote: >> Wow. So that means then, that after Mark Shuttleworth's announcement >> that Ubuntu is coming to tablets, the 'officially' recommended way at >> the moment to join in with development is to buy a tablet that doesn't >> support, and quite possibly will never reliably support, hardware >> accelerated graphics? I find that disappointing, to say the least. >> > >My recommendation was based on the fact that I know it's possible to run >Ubuntu on one of these devices. At the moment the Ubuntu Tablet is >something Canonical are exploring, we don't have a lot of things nailed >down, including final hardware. The Transformer is good enough right now >to run Ubuntu, although not perfectly, it's good enough for a >development target during our explorations. > >> What this means is that: >> a. People will be unable to try anything with 12.04 until it's ported to >> this tablet > >I don't understand this. People have successfully installed 11.10 on >Transformers, and had some success with hardware acceleration. > >http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/How_to_install_Ubuntu_on_an_Asus_EEEPad_Transformer > >It's far from perfect but people in the community are working on the >niggling issues by the look of it. > >> b. We are then 'stuck' with using the Unity 2D interface. There are >> potentially some great things about this, but personally, I'm a fan of >> the regular version currently shipping that requires graphics acceleration. > >Unity 2D uses GL acceleration too you know :) Just less of it. I too >like Unity, but in Ubuntu both Unity and Unity 2D are first class citizens. > >> c. We will most likely be developing using the modified kernel required >> for the transformer tablet. Admittedly I don't know much about kernel >> development, but this doesn't seem to bode well for the future of this >> project. Needing to have a modified kernel to get something to run >> generally points to it not being officially supported by the main >> project... >> > >Modified kernels will almost certainly be required for _any_ ARM based >device right now. That's a fact of life. > >> I would really like to see Canonical, and Ubuntu, succeed in the tablet >> market. For this to happen though, I would expect there to be some form >> of reasonable development device available in the near future. Alan, are >> you able to drop us any hints as to whether this will happen or not? At >> the very least, a roadmap from Canonical about tablet development would >> be appreciated. Thanks. >> > >We don't have a roadmap I can show you. We're just in the early stages >of exploring the tablet market and devices and have a very small team >looking at this. As Mark outlined in his blog post we have aspirations >to be on tablets, but it's very early days for us. > >Cheers, >Al. > >-- >Alan Pope >Engineering Manager > >Canonical - Product Strategy >alan.p...@canonical.com >http://ubuntu.com/ > >-- >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
