On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 23:00 +0800, Misha Shnurapet wrote: > Hello. > > To those who follows the developments (and, in particular, the recent > CES 2011), the trend towards personal MIDs and tablet PCs is not just > promising but logical. Quite a few major vendors, such as Dell (with > Streak and so-called 'M02M'), RIM, Samsung, Motorola and Sharp (with > Galapagos) revealed their plans to deliver ARM-based touch screen > computing devices to consumers worldwide. Along with ready-to-use > solution providers, Qualcomm showed-off its dual-core Snapdragon CPU, > there has been news on Tegra of NVIDIA. According to analytics, the > year of 2011 is to be the rise of MIDs and that of biting a nice piece > of desktop and laptop niche. > > I have a question. What does it mean for Fedora? We have a Fedora ARM project - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM - and it's quite active at the moment, there was a very interesting talk on it at FUDCon (I don't know if we have a transcript or recording) by Paul Whalen. We have Fedora running already on quite a few bits of ARM hardware. For the consumer market (ARM is also very interesting for embedded usage), the major issue is graphics hardware; none of the graphics chips commonly used in ARM systems have drivers that are remotely suitable for Fedora from a licensing perspective. The big hope there is the next version of the OLPC, which will be ARM-based and have an open graphics driver for at least 2D; the hope is that the chip from the OLPC will find its way into other ARM devices, and then we'd have a good driver for those too. Paul and/or Peter Robinson would be able to provide you with further details if you're interested. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
