On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:30 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> If I am looking at it correctly, I could drop just about any app, like
> OpenOffice or SuperTux or XMMS on this and have it run, albeit slowly,
> but it would run rite?
Well, in theory yes. But, in practice you probably want something that
a developer has spent a little bit of time on. The real difference
comes with different screen sizes. What works with a mouse and keyboard
often doesn't with a stylus or a thumb. Also, there are the RAM
limitations, but that's usually less of an issue now that the devices
have a lot more RAM.
I think for some good examples of this you should browse the Maemo
website:
http://www.maemo.org/
That is the debian based distribution that is used on the 770's and
800's by Nokia. You'll notice that they've also implemented the
"Hildon" widget set which are GTK+ widgets designed for small screen
devices.
So, in a nutshell: yes, but you probably won't like what you end up
with. It should be relatively easy for developers to move their apps
over though.
--Ted
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