Re: Linux and tablets?

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Linux and tablets?
Date	2019-01-24 13:54 +0100
Message-ID	<v5pohf-71o.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 24/01/2019 00.05, nospam wrote:

>>> linux wasn't designed for touch, nor was windows for that matter.
>>
>> X11 wasn't designed for touch. Linux is perfectly capable of running a
>> different GUI and having a different experience, ChromeOS and and
>> Android are specific examples of that happening. Wayland is supposed to
>> be another. I briefly tried MGR (https://hack.org/mc/mgr/) sometime
>> before I was married, so 20+ years ago; it's a GUI on Linux that is
>> not X11 at all.
> 
> having a gui doesn't magically give something a touch ui. 
> 
> android has a linux kernel, but that's very different than a linux box.
> android apps use android apis, not linux apis. 

Contrary to Windows or Apple, Linux GUI is not unique nor tied to the
system. You can have a Linux machine with a totally different graphic
GUI, using a totally different toolset and API, and with applications
that only run on that GUI. This is, arguably, what Android did. Thus it
is possible to design a Linux "desktop" to run on tablets using touch
screen: there would be a full Linux beneath, but applications would only
run on that desktop with a different API.

You can think of it as a graphic system on top of a text system.

It is not what Windows did (version 3), because Windows rewrote may
basic functions of the MsDOS OS that was running below it, as it was not
capable (things like memory limitations; having to rewrite basic
functionality to access the disk and files while accessing the entire
memory and not having to change CPU mode. Later and necessarily M$
dropped that model.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-22 19:41 -0800
  Re: Linux and tablets? Hergen Lehmann <hlehmann.expires.5-11@snafu.de> - 2019-01-23 09:59 +0100
    Re: Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-23 03:26 -0800
      Re: Linux and tablets? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2019-01-23 09:33 -0700
        Re: Linux and tablets? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-01-23 21:10 +0000
    Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 08:29 -0500
      Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-23 20:43 +0000
        Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 16:24 -0500
          Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-23 21:55 +0000
            Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 18:05 -0500
              Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-23 23:39 +0000
                Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 23:24 -0500
              Re: Linux and tablets? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-24 13:54 +0100
        Re: Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-24 21:29 -0800
          Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-25 21:12 +0000
  Re: Linux and tablets? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-01-24 01:35 +0000
    Re: Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-24 16:44 -0800
      Re: Linux and tablets? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2019-01-24 17:58 -0700
        Re: Linux and tablets? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2019-01-25 09:49 +0000
        Re: Linux and tablets? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-25 14:25 +0100
          Re: Linux and tablets? 123456789 <123456@123456.com> - 2019-01-25 09:04 -0700
            Re: Linux and tablets? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-25 22:03 +0100

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