anyone try this? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Android -jmz On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > Craig White wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:27 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: >> >>> Well, it seems like the list has come down to two major desktop distros, >>> Ubuntu and Fedora and as far as I know neither is commercial.  There was >>> a time when Mandrake, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, and others were all looking >>> at the desktop as a potential market.  The survivors seem to have headed >>> for big servers or special cases.  Meanwhile, a lot of activity has >>> opened up in sub-desktop consumer Linux, most notably with Google's >>> Android and Chrome. >>> >> ---- >> I think that Android and Chrome serve different purposes than the main >> stream Linux distributions - they are intended for lighterweight >> hardware, smaller cpu, smaller screens etc. and thus far, telephone and >> similar devices and netbooks have been their target. >> >> There clearly is a need for both lightweight desktops and full featured >> desktops. >> >> Any distribution looking to sell a Desktop OS is going to have to ramp >> put the technical support for it because people will have questions and >> expect answers. >> >> I gather that some of the early release images of Chrome have been >> dominating the torrents lately. >> >> I would like to point out that I just got a Moto Droid the other day and >> it is an extremely complicated device and I'm still discovering things >> about it. >> >> I thought at first it was curious that before the dude at the VZ store >> would hand me the telphone, he downloaded and installed 'Advanced Task >> Killer (Free)' and wanted to show me how to use it. I didn't need the >> demo, I understood what it was for but apparently at some level, VZ made >> a decision to teach people how to use these things because they are also >> holding classes on Android (one of my friends bought one and was very >> grateful for the class he went to). >> >> But I will point out things I didn't realize until after I got the >> Droid... >> - Evolution calendars sync rather well with Gmail calendars >> - Evolution contacts can mount Gmail contacts and contacts can be moved >> or copied back and forth (beware that certain punctuation like $/\& can >> cause problems) Not all fields work...but enough work >> - Evolution task lists however - fahgettabouddit >> >> It occurred to me that in this case, I was lucky because Linux desktop >> essentially already integrated support for Gmail while on Apple or >> Microsoft (especially Outlook), there are extra hoops. I also found when >> doing my google search thing for this, that the KDE PIM stuff can sync >> with Google but I don't use the KDE PIM stuff very much. >> >> Craig >> >> > I'm stuck with a Blackberry, which is OK.  It sounds like your (Craig's) > experience jives with the reviews,  "Droid is a phone geeks will love." > That means it's a niche product.  OS X is the best consumer OS I've > worked in.  I bet the iPhone still beats the Droid for *typical* user > experience ... except for the network thing which Phoenix iPhone users > I've known hate. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss