Comments on: Mobile linux and the desktop

By: Jimmie Neslusan

Jimmie Neslusan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:47:17 +0000

Thank you for the sensible critique. Me

By: Thomas Zander (thomaszander) 's status on Friday, 30-Oct-09 06:00:52 UTC - Identi.ca

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:01:22 +0000

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By: Jean-Marc Liotier

Jean-Marc Liotier — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:16:06 +0000

In the Android stack, Linux is a mere hardware abstraction layer for the virtual machine running on top of it and supporting cloudy applications that keep the user close to Google.

I have never been fond of Nokia’s software (great hardware though) and I’m suspicious of something supported by a single vendor, but Google’s choices with Android have made me see Maemo in a much more favourable light.

By: Ryan Paul (segphault) 's status on Thursday, 29-Oct-09 23:18:18 UTC - Identi.ca

Ryan Paul (segphault) 's status on Thursday, 29-Oct-09 23:18:18 UTC - Identi.ca — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:18:57 +0000

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By: uraeus

uraeus — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:35:05 +0000

@Alex: Android like any opensource project does contain some useful code. But the opencore-amr libs wasn’t as much given to the community as it was something the community was able to salvage out of Android. I mean the AMR files where not made public in a way that was useful to anyone outside Android, so it was only due to the effort of the people behind the opencore-amr project to take that code and make it something that could be shared by a lot of projects.

By: Alex Converse

Alex Converse — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:18:40 +0000

Everyone seems quick to forget that android gave us the opencore-amr libs.

By: zecke

zecke — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:53:40 +0000

The Google Chromium team is contributing a lot, the Android team fails to participate in upstream development, send patches, open bug reports, leave a lone producing a clean patch from android to WebKit.org..

Their git branches is a dump from perforce to git and figuring what they actually changed and what they cherry-picked from webkit is quite hard.

By: Xav

Xav — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:05:30 +0000

As Android needs a working base system, with a kernel, a GUI, a multimedia system, etc. I’m wondering if simply porting their java VM (Dalvik) to e.g. Maemo would work ? That would be a great platform.

By: uraeus

uraeus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:53:07 +0000

@Rob J. Caskey: an advantage of Android is that Google so far has made no promises on the stack beneath their JAVA API. So they can in fact move in a more standard direction with Android without abandoning their current apps. That said the idea that Android apps currently truly works nicely across all devices and resolutions is a illussion.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:57:04 +0000

That’s quite unfortunate to see that people are only talking of big players.

There is other stacks such as pokylinux ( from openhand, bought by intel for moblin http://o-hand.com ), there is lots of stacks directly based on linux for openmoko phone ( like hackable:1, based on gnome-mobile , made by bearstech ), there is indeed webos.

And I think most of them offer a standard linux api when they exist. For example, tangogps, a gps application made for openmoko phones run fine on a laptop with a standard gps. Midori/arora can be used on a mobile device. The whole telepathy stack and gstreamer stack is used on most plateform.

And that’s right the synergy is the key.