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Improving Ubuntu's application upload processImproving Ubuntu's application upload processPosted Sep 6, 2012 14:36 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Improving Ubuntu's application upload process by dlang Parent article: Improving Ubuntu's application upload process
>well, if they haven't released it, it seems a bit early to say 'mobody cared'. And as for their demo, did it really implement everything? or just enough to give examples? If they include it in 12.10, publicise it, and then nobody cares I'll start to believe you.
They've implemented it enough to be useful. Still, nobody of large OEMs cared.
>docking units don't have CPUs.
But seriously, that's just a logical progression - simply add ability to easily offload apps from a tiny CPU in a phone to a real desktop CPU.
>Plus you have this amazing assumption that people who write small android apps can scale them up to full features apps without a problem.
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Improving Ubuntu's application upload process Posted Sep 6, 2012 19:07 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
connecting two CPUs together efficiently is hard, and not something that you are going to do with a docking station (the connector alone will be a large percentage of the size of the mobile device, you aren't just talking about a USB cable or something like that.
Also, a docking station with it's own CPU, memory, etc isn't cheap, but it also already exists (it's called a "desktop computer")
what you seem to be wanting is checkpoint/restore capability to move running applications from one server to another. with the appropriate emulation, the desktop doesn't need to have the same processor architecture that the mobile device has
docking stations are much simpler, they are little more than convienient ways to plug in several devices at once instead of having multiple wires.
Improving Ubuntu's application upload process Posted Sep 6, 2012 19:10 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
> connecting two CPUs together efficiently is hard
You don't need to do it. Just migrate all running apps to the docked CPU.
>Also, a docking station with it's own CPU, memory, etc isn't cheap, but it also already exists (it's called a "desktop computer")
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