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.
The idea is cool, but not new. The idea is general to all android devices, while Canonical is binding the concept with its own new device. The project is developed underground by Canonical, so far nothing, not to say repository, is available except advertisements and the call for people to donate. As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project, Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4]. 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. I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone and tablets. It would be nice to find out a solution based on Gentoo for desktop/smartphone hybrid *before* Canonical's release. Comments welcome. Cheers, Benda 1. http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android 2. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge 3. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
