Posted on 01/04/2009 5:49:44 AM PST by webschooner
Google may have started out with cellphones for their Android platform, but that doesn’t mean they’re limiting their future options. The guys over at VentureBeat have loaded the open-source OS onto an Eee PC 1000 netbook, with a display almost five times the size of the T-Mobile G1, and aside from some initial networking and sound issues Android is now running normally on the ASUS machine.
Screen resolution adjusted automatically, and while digging around in the code they came across not only the phone policy but a MID (mobile internet device) policy suggesting that Google are already considering netbooks in these relatively early Android builds. One of Google’s own developers, Dima Zavin, ported the platform onto another Intel CPU-based netbook, proving that there was no real technical issue preventing it.
Getting Android ready for the Eee PC took around four hours. That left VentureBeat with a working netbook capable of media playback, internet access, messaging and, presumably, if the 1000 had a 3G modem, wireless broadband. Since the open-source version of Android doesn’t currently support the Android Market, downloading apps from there wasn’t possible; however, they did find Czech, German, English (Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore, United States), Spanish, Japanese, German and Dutch translation options, suggesting launches of the platform in some those countries may be next.
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Well, we're using it for instrument control and data collection with Labview. I suspect the extra overhead of Wine or virtualization will slow things down enough to be problematic. XP works fine for this. Unfortunately, Microsoft pretty much has a lock on commercial instrument control software. We have successfully resisted switching to Vista, thus far
The fact that a version of Android that was designed specifically for a mobile phone could be adapted to run on a netbook, shows that in future, a version could be and may be developed to be produced specifically for netbooks.
I already stated in post #5 that it was open source.
Do you have specialized SCADA or I/O cards or like that? If so, Wine or virtualization could be a problem as virtualization only virtualizes a basic hardware configuration and if the hardware is very specialized, there may not be Linux drivers available. Given that’s it’s Labview though, who knows, they might. If you’re connecting to external hardware via serial or ethernet though, virtualization shouldn’t be any problem. I do that all the time.
We use both externally purchased and internally developed hardware, and in many cases have to interface our "stuff" to other manufacturer's equipment. Pretty much all the hardware we have to interface with runs under one flavor or another of Windows. I have yet to find much of anything commercial that runs Linux.
"Given that’s it’s Labview though, who knows, they might. "
I've had discussions with our "Labview Guru" (I do hardware design--not software), and he tells me that you simply cannot do as much stuff in the Linux version of Labview as is possible in the Windows version.
"If you’re connecting to external hardware via serial or ethernet though, virtualization shouldn’t be any problem. I do that all the time."
Our goal is to run all of our internally developed devices by serial control, but given the wide array of equipment that we "might" need to access or interface to, we simply "must" retain the added compatibility that working in Windows assures. I ain't happy about that, but that's the real world.
Too bad it doesn't work.
Linux - Solaris - HPUX have all had the same sort of bugs.
Not anywhere close to the same extent.
Microsoft's poor excuses for operating systems have a long and distinguished history of being unsecure.
No software is perfect. Linux, Solaris, BSD and all others have security issues from time to time.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is the poster child for how to not build software.
How is the NT security model worse than the POSIX security model?
I just want to know why the internet is so sloooooooow on my computer, even with broadband.
That is exactly the way windows does it as well.
I was happy to see that with Vista they've finally instituted a functional user-space system. If it works as advertised it should help things considerably.
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