Hessiess said:
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OK, by that logic an 8GB card will be badly abused by having a couple dozen 1MB apps that are now 1.75 MB apiece due to statically linked libraries? I think that people using HD 720p video clips will be a worse abuser of the space. 16GB are reasonably priced, and 32GB are around.
personally I would want to try to cram as much of the core programs into the NAND as possible i.e. web browser, media player, Email client emu's etc and use SD for data storage, and maby less important apps like emus(if they wont fit on NAND). in this case a couple of megs here and there could make the difference between it fitting on the NAND, and not fitting on the NAND.
Ok, I see, I doubt that the sort of programs you want to install on the NAND will use libraries that aren't available with the included distro.
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What project? The Pandora? It is hardware, you choose the OS you run
yes, of cource i mean the Pandora, In the case of X86 this is not a problem, as there is a pletera of OS's for the architecture. Pandora is ARM, with very unique controls. using a different OS on it would at the very least require re-mapping the keyboard keys and emulating mouse with the analogues. if there are ports of mainstream Linux distros in the future is yet to be sean.
I quite like being able to update my os with a simple.
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sudo pacman -Syu
not possible without a package manager.
Ah, I think that it should just work.
If you check the Beagle Board project you will see Ubuntu running on nearly the same hardware. here is a video, I see it is "ported" already
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuVwh_VrIxk I thought that Debian had a big push to port everything to ARM for general use on portable hardware? That should provide us with a huge base. (I agree that it will need a little work, but since the Beagle-Board is $150 and a lot of devs seem taken with it I think that inputs will be trivial to support.)
As for input, isn't it just a driver that loads and provides an input device for the OS to use? I don't see it being too hard to use the controls/keyboard in any alternate Linux OS.
I would use the touch-screen for heavy mousing
I thought it would come with a package manager?
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Do PC's coming pre-loaded with Windows make you sick of Laptops? (is that even logical?)
yes actually, and its perfectly logical, why would i want to pay for something im not going to use?
I think you missed the point, don't be mad at the hardware was my point. Can you fault the Eeepc for coming with its own Linux OS?
The beauty of this project is the fact that it can run any OS, and the included OS uses a minimal interface as standard (with a desktop available), that should support just about any program you might want to run on it.