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[Николай Шатохин <n.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, What are you decided about hardware? What tablet will I must to buy for
tests?

2012/2/1 brian mullan <bmullan.mail@xxxxxxxxx>

> I've been waiting for an ubuntu port to the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.
>
> I've rooted mine and am currently running the Android 4.x Ice Cream
> Sandwich release and its really a good tablet with that OS.
>
> But there is a huge interest in the Nook Color user world for an Ubuntu
> release that can be  installed.
>
>
> liputing.com/2012/01/nook-tablet-hacks-flash-a-custom-rom-or-boot-ubuntu-to-restore-os-1-4-0.html
>
> Nook Color tablet is only $250, its dual core omap4, 1G memory, 16G
> internal storage & can add upto 32G microSSD
> and has the POWERVR SGX540 GPU processor and supports both Open GLES 1.1
> and 2.0.
>
> https://nookdeveloper.barnesandnoble.com/product/nook-tablet-specs.html
>
> I had ubuntu running on my single core nook color in chroot and it worked
> ok but that was 1/2 the cpu & 1/2 the ram of
> the new nook color tablet.
>
> There was also a great Phoronix article this past week on Ubuntu & ARM:
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_armhf&num=1
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Mitchell Reese <
> mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Alan, look forward to seeing which direction things go. M
>>
>> Curious Mail - Sent via Linux
>>
>> Alan Pope <alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi Mitchell,
>> >
>> >On 30/01/12 00:29, Mitchell Reese wrote:
>> >> Wow. So that means then, that after Mark Shuttleworth's announcement
>> >> that Ubuntu is coming to tablets, the 'officially' recommended way at
>> >> the moment to join in with development is to buy a tablet that doesn't
>> >> support, and quite possibly will never reliably support, hardware
>> >> accelerated graphics? I find that disappointing, to say the least.
>> >>
>> >
>> >My recommendation was based on the fact that I know it's possible to run
>> >Ubuntu on one of these devices. At the moment the Ubuntu Tablet is
>> >something Canonical are exploring, we don't have a lot of things nailed
>> >down, including final hardware. The Transformer is good enough right now
>> >to run Ubuntu, although not perfectly, it's good enough for a
>> >development target during our explorations.
>> >
>> >> What this means is that:
>> >> a. People will be unable to try anything with 12.04 until it's ported
>> to
>> >> this tablet
>> >
>> >I don't understand this. People have successfully installed 11.10 on
>> >Transformers, and had some success with hardware acceleration.
>> >
>> >
>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/How_to_install_Ubuntu_on_an_Asus_EEEPad_Transformer
>> >
>> >It's far from perfect but people in the community are working on the
>> >niggling issues by the look of it.
>> >
>> >> b. We are then 'stuck' with using the Unity 2D interface. There are
>> >> potentially some great things about this, but personally, I'm a fan of
>> >> the regular version currently shipping that requires graphics
>> acceleration.
>> >
>> >Unity 2D uses GL acceleration too you know :) Just less of it. I too
>> >like Unity, but in Ubuntu both Unity and Unity 2D are first class
>> citizens.
>> >
>> >> c. We will most likely be developing using the modified kernel required
>> >> for the transformer tablet. Admittedly I don't know much about kernel
>> >> development, but this doesn't seem to bode well for the future of this
>> >> project. Needing to have a modified kernel to get something to run
>> >> generally points to it not being officially supported by the main
>> >> project...
>> >>
>> >
>> >Modified kernels will almost certainly be required for _any_ ARM based
>> >device right now. That's a fact of life.
>> >
>> >> I would really like to see Canonical, and Ubuntu, succeed in the tablet
>> >> market. For this to happen though, I would expect there to be some form
>> >> of reasonable development device available in the near future. Alan,
>> are
>> >> you able to drop us any hints as to whether this will happen or not? At
>> >> the very least, a roadmap from Canonical about tablet development would
>> >> be appreciated. Thanks.
>> >>
>> >
>> >We don't have a roadmap I can show you. We're just in the early stages
>> >of exploring the tablet market and devices and have a very small team
>> >looking at this. As Mark outlined in his blog post we have aspirations
>> >to be on tablets, but it's very early days for us.
>> >
>> >Cheers,
>> >Al.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Alan Pope
>> >Engineering Manager
>> >
>> >Canonical - Product Strategy
>> >alan.pope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >http://ubuntu.com/
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