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Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play LiveAkademy: Plasma Active and Make Play LivePosted Jul 4, 2012 19:22 UTC (Wed) by oever (subscriber, #987)Parent article: Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live
Devices are changing very quickly and there is no plateau in sight. This means that the owners(*) of the Vivaldi should be seen as a pioneers: it is not luxurious to be a pioneer, but if you stick with it your situation will improve and you will enjoy freedom and control all the way.
Make Play Live is not the only effort for creating an open device. Since the manufacturing numbers of the Vivaldi are so low, it would be good to have the ability to install KDE/MPL on other devices too. Other efforts that aim at hardware with customizable software are CyanogenMod and Firefox OS. CyanogenMod wants to install custom software on mass manufactured devices and Mozilla has hardware and network partners to develop devices for Firefox OS.
Collaboration on the kernel level between these three projects would be very welcome. By having a kernel that is able to boot on many devices, it will be much easier to find more people that can KDE, Firefox OS, CyanogenMod, or even Tizen on their device.
(*) an open device like the Vivali would be really owned by the person that uses it in contrast to e.g. an iPad that is never truly under the control of that person.
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Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live Posted Jul 4, 2012 21:00 UTC (Wed) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
> Devices are changing very quickly and there is no plateau in sight.
No plateau in sight?
Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live Posted Jul 4, 2012 22:10 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]
Evolution is change.
Updating from LTE to whatever the next wireless technology is may not be a big jump, but the drivers will be new and might have entirely new work to do: selecting the best path out of a multipath radio environment for example or reassembling partial packets transmitted on multiple paths.
Mesh routing protocols may finally come into their own.
Storage technology may stop using flash in the near future. Whatever the new stuff is may even replace RAM.
Processors may become even more differentiated and asymmetrical, requiring kernel updates to decide where to run what.
In a while devices may disappear into eyeglasses or into sub-dermal implants.
The display, input, storage and computation pieces might end up residing in completely separate devices.
It doesn't need to be revolutionary change in order to make it nearly impossible to run open-source software on the device. It simply needs to change.
Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live Posted Jul 5, 2012 11:09 UTC (Thu) by oever (subscriber, #987) [Link]
Some new devices are glasses, tv, watch, fridge, car. More and more form factors are being added as the hardware becomes smaller and more flexible. There is no end in sight for creative form factors.
Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live Posted Jul 5, 2012 4:27 UTC (Thu) by sciurus (subscriber, #58832) [Link]
I'm curious if the work Mozilla is presumably doing with hardware manufacturers for Firefox OS will be beneficial for Make Play Live.
Akademy: Plasma Active and Make Play Live Posted Jul 6, 2012 3:49 UTC (Fri) by shmerl (guest, #65921) [Link]
Not yet. Plasma Active relies on conventional Linux graphics stack (X.org or Wayland), and getting Linux drivers for mobile GPUs is a huge pain, let alone open source ones, because manufacturers are distracted with Android). Mozilla decided to avoid this, and relies on Android graphics stack in B2G (Firefox OS). So their efforts with manufacturers won't benefit Linux at large, as Android itself does not.
That's the biggest flaw in Android in general from the global Linux community perspective - i.e. it's totally isolated nature, caused by early design decisions (while it was still proprietary and any community interests weren't even considered) which led to incompatible graphics stack from the rest of the Linux world. Unfortunately Wayland was created somewhat later, and Android was already going in totally separate way.
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