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General Discussion / The Now Traditionnal Time For Delirious
« on: December 21, 2004, 01:02:07 am »
Long have I pondered this situation amrein. I too am a Linux user and developer, I've patched and debugged several distrobutions since I started messing with Linux when i was 13... Now at 18 I can say Linux in general has come a very very long way, but is still quite fragmented and leaderless. Comes from being stepped on by the big boys like Microsoft for so long.
Now, when I discovered the existance of Zaurus I immediately thought up the idea of making a fully community based PDA. Under the leadership of a company, the community, or key individuals within the community would recive detailed specs, and maybe even developer smaples of a PDA. Now this wouldn't be too difcult, I know both Intel and AMD have Reference Design Kits that go along with their ARM and MIPs processors. The problem lies in the initial investment.
If the big players in the community were given one of these, sothey could tweak a kernel and current distro, preferably Debian, and the documents made available to the rest of the community, for driver optimizations and the like, we'd have a damn awesome starting point.
http://www.intrinsyc.com/pdfs/productsheets/Carbonado.pdf
Again i say, the problem is the initial investment. It has to come under the wing of a company, the original reference design has to be tweaked before it's released to the community, because of patent issues, and for that you need a team (not neccessarily a big one) of engineers and a place to manufacture some new designs. So in the end, again I have to agree. this will only work with a company willing to give to the community.
I've of course had delusions of grandeur and dream that my little custom PC shop will grow enough that I can make my own custom Linux distro to bundle with my systems, and from there I could jump into the PDA market and spearhead a community based revilution, but that would take years, and investors I don't have.
So there you go, it's not likely to happen. Unfortunate.
Now, when I discovered the existance of Zaurus I immediately thought up the idea of making a fully community based PDA. Under the leadership of a company, the community, or key individuals within the community would recive detailed specs, and maybe even developer smaples of a PDA. Now this wouldn't be too difcult, I know both Intel and AMD have Reference Design Kits that go along with their ARM and MIPs processors. The problem lies in the initial investment.
If the big players in the community were given one of these, sothey could tweak a kernel and current distro, preferably Debian, and the documents made available to the rest of the community, for driver optimizations and the like, we'd have a damn awesome starting point.
http://www.intrinsyc.com/pdfs/productsheets/Carbonado.pdf
Again i say, the problem is the initial investment. It has to come under the wing of a company, the original reference design has to be tweaked before it's released to the community, because of patent issues, and for that you need a team (not neccessarily a big one) of engineers and a place to manufacture some new designs. So in the end, again I have to agree. this will only work with a company willing to give to the community.
I've of course had delusions of grandeur and dream that my little custom PC shop will grow enough that I can make my own custom Linux distro to bundle with my systems, and from there I could jump into the PDA market and spearhead a community based revilution, but that would take years, and investors I don't have.
So there you go, it's not likely to happen. Unfortunate.