Freescale adds Android, Xandros netbook support (ZDNet UK)

Freescale adds Android, Xandros netbook support (ZDNet UK)

Posted Feb 19, 2009 2:34 UTC (Thu) by HalfMoon (guest, #3211)
In reply to: Freescale adds Android, Xandros netbook support (ZDNet UK) by jspaleta
Parent article: Freescale adds Android, Xandros netbook support (ZDNet UK)

This puts Xandros and Canonical squarely in place for a head to head competition for OEM partnerships in the next round of netbook offerings based on the Freescale i.MX515.

My first reaction is: how about OMAP 3530 based offerings? OMAP has a much better established Linux community, better power usage, and is (from what I can tell) more mature. Freescale hardware has been a bit flakey, and this chip of theirs is kind of too new for me to consider trusting. Consider the fact that I have four different OMAP3 boards handy ... only one of them being a pure developer board, three being commercial (or soon to be), all running Linux. OMAP3 has a lot of momentum, vs "no major orders yet" for Freescale.

Seriously ... it'd be good to see a comparison of the OMAP vs that Freescale in terms of stuff like completeness of Linux support, battery life, developer familiarity, and so on. All of those things matter hugely.

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