Re: Porting debian on Nvidia tegra 2

[Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>]

It's a question of usability, not just from the point of view
of the desktop but from the point of view of the apps.

Android apps are designed from ground up with the touch interface
in mind. Desktop apps are designed with the keyboard/mouse
interface as the primary intended use method.


On 2014-02-13 11:08, Divya Subramanian wrote:
> but ubunu touch has been ported to Nexus device. How was that
> possible?
>
>  Regards,
>
> Divya Subramanian
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Lack of a keyboard and an accurate pointing device for a start.
> >
> > On 2014-02-13 10:00, Divya Subramanian wrote:
> > How is it suboptimal? I could not understand how  UI constraints
> > come
> > into scene .
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> > Divya Subramanian
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > You should be able to get this working pretty trivially in a
> > chroot.
> > Google for running Linux in a chroot on Android. Running it as the
> > primary OS on tablets tends to be suboptimal due to the UI
> > constraints of tablets.
> >
> > Divya Subramanian <divyaengineer90@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to port debian on Samsung galaxy Tab 10.1, working on
> > Nvidia Tegra  2 processor. I am a newbie. Can anyone help?
> >
> >  
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Divya Subramanian
>
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