Hello.
To those who follows the developments (and, in particular, the recent CES 2011), the trend towards personal MIDs and tablet PCs is not just promising but logical. Quite a few major vendors, such as Dell (with Streak and so-called 'M02M'), RIM, Samsung, Motorola and Sharp (with Galapagos) revealed their plans to deliver ARM-based touch screen computing devices to consumers worldwide. Along with ready-to-use solution providers, Qualcomm showed-off its dual-core Snapdragon CPU, there has been news on Tegra of NVIDIA. According to analytics, the year of 2011 is to be the rise of MIDs and that of biting a nice piece of desktop and laptop niche.
I have a question. What does it mean for Fedora?
fre 2011-01-21 klockan 23:00 +0800 skrev Misha Shnurapet:
I have a question. What does it mean for Fedora?
That there should get a bigger momentum around Linux on ARM in general, including Fedora, and that the current task of getting the Fedora ARM up to date is an important enabler for Fedora to be able to participate in the open community around running "your own Linux" on these devices.
But in the area of ARM MID (etc) devices there is also an alarming trend of securely locking down the devices and not publishing hardware information which will both annoy and slow down development considerably. The number of ARM MID etc devices that you can actually replace the operating system software on is fairly limited. It does not help much if full source is disclosed (which it often is not) if the hardware documentation is closed and/or any os software needs to e digitally signed by the hw vendor.
Regards Henrik
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Misha Shnurapet