On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 06:13:16PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > > There are probably many more things going on. > > Please, post them here and/or tell us at the BoF! > > Don't forget the Gemini PDA which reportedly also runs Debian as an option > (though I have not seen one yet).
I have one. Alas, that "Debian" is a bad joke: it relies on an Android partition to even boot, requires a vendor kernel with plenty of drivers. There's a source to that kernel, but you need a lot of blobby userspace sourceless drivers as well, and those can't even be installed themselves but require a running Android installation that's accessed via libhybris. These drivers have a bunch of hardcoded uids and gids in the range used by unmodified Debian, thus you can't even have sane chroots/containers -- would need to replicate all the extra steps every time. I for one don't even get sleep on close, basic power management or working brightness adjustment, but most people report those work for them. Even reflashing to a pristine vendor image doesn't seem to help for me, though. That makes battery life extremely short. The hardware itself is pretty adequate, though. Keyboard is too big for in-hands use (at which N900 excelled) but is more like a micro-laptop. Only space has problems registering presses not in the middle, but that's probably a matter of getting used to. USB connectivity is nice: you get two USB C ports; I haven't seen a native USB C peripheral in my life but with an USB A-to-C adapter devices I tried work fine. Meow! -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory prices.
