06-09-2008, 09:17 AM | #1 |
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Alternative OS for iliad
Hello community,
a have found something wich would be a very good alternative for the -in my opinion- poor OS for the iliad : http://code.google.com/p/einstein/ As i´m not a coding god like you are, i´m simply not able to try that. so i´m interestet in your comments on this :-) |
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06-09-2008, 10:44 AM | #3 | |
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Don't mismatch the user interface with the operating system! While I agree the iLiad Userinterface is not so great, its not the underlying OS fault. "Einstein" is actually the Newton interface on a Linux OS. |
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06-09-2008, 10:49 AM | #4 |
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* A kernel project * A user interface project * + targets *all* readers. Pick out at most two of these 3 to make one senseful project, but all 3 is IMHO just too much. Last edited by axel77; 07-05-2008 at 06:14 AM. |
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When do you anticipate that the first version of the software will be available?
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07-05-2008, 10:02 AM | #9 |
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When it's ready. OI is a volunteer project being worked on in free time (except the GSoC-sponsored students, and they're doing great!).
Said this, I should add that anyone who is interested to develop for the OI can already get the something installable on V3 and start hacking. |
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Maybe its just because the e-ink world is just too young, to come up with a set of intertwined projects, where one project does one and only one thing really well (the unix philosophy). At your case, Id say either concentrate on one of this points: * One eInk device providing an intertwined kernel with an UI for it or * A kernel running on all kind of devices or * A general UI interface running on a given kernel. and leave other combination to other "spinnoffs". But this is just my opinion and suggestion to be more sucessfull, its your project. |
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07-05-2008, 11:24 AM | #11 |
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OK, we're dropping all readers except V3 right now (while it sounds like "We're dropping all PC except Dell ones").
Oh, wait! All we develop is portable source code and Wenjie and Ondřej just need to build several drivers in kernel... So even if we drop everything except V3, they will complete their GSoC tasks and we'll get the support for Cybook (+several similar devices) and Sony PRS-505. Damn! Our project will be doomed immediately I assume you're not familiar with how things work in the field: the idea that every device is unique and requires thorough and hard work is a myth: all the boards are quite standard ARM devices and userspace is just the same for most Linux devices all around the world. |
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In your case, now okay so the e-ink devices are very similar. Making one linux kernel variation for all kind of e-ink readers is a good and complete project on its own. There is no need to intertwine it with a specific user OS. This should be another project, maybe it are the same people working on it, maybe they arent. But one key task should be one project. Maybe make the projects work with each other. But both should be seperate projects, possible seperate downloads/installment, possibly maintained by different people. Thats my criticism to put it all into the one big project. Last edited by axel77; 07-05-2008 at 11:48 AM. |
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07-05-2008, 11:53 AM | #15 |
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To sum it up: OI is a distro project.
We do not develop the software, we just package and integrate it. While OI is a specific distro, there is some amount of "pure" developement required, and everything developed goes to the corresponding upstream project: kernel, X.org, E17, FBreader (well, this is tough one, but anyway). |
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