On 03/20/13 09:15, Peter Gueckel wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
> What is the advantage of running (K)Ubuntu or any other
> Linux distro on a smartphone or tablet?
I really couldn't say. I don't yet own any such mobile computing
device, but I was perusing some flyers yesterday and was getting
rather interested.
I thought, what if I were to buy a smartphone (and/or a tablet)?
Smartphones are pretty powerful these days, with multi-core
processors and the ability to power large LED displays, etc., so I
wouldn't need my desktop and laptop computers anymore.
So, I thought, before I really start to get interested in replacing
my current (static) hardware with contemporary (mobile) hardware, I
had better find out how to get Fedora onto it.
To my great surprise, it appears that moving my hardware into the
contemporary mobile age means de facto abandoning Fedora.
I thought that KDE Plasma was an attempt at getting KDE onto mobile
devices. You have to have Fedora (or some other distro) on the
device to get KDE onto it, don't you?
> Do people wanting to do this simply want to do it in an attempt
to...?
For me, wanting to do this is an attempt to move into the mobile
computing age, discard my old and redundant equipment
(desktop/laptop)... and still have Fedora!
Oh, so you want to eliminate your desktop and laptop and move to a single mobile platform
with, ideally, Fedora as the underlying OS.
Just my opinion, but I don't see mobile platforms (smart phones, tablets) as
exclusionary devices but complementary. As long as there is a way to easily share content
between devices and one is not locked into proprietary formats I'm happy. (I see
folks have reported MTP being supported in the most recent kernels.)
I personally don't see any advantage but I do see potential pitfalls in taking the
route you're contemplating.
--
From now on, at least during winter time, Im going to blame all
spelling an grammar erros on the cat sitting on my chest every time I sit down at the
computer....