[opensuse] HP Touchpad and SuSE
Yesterday I read a Wall Street Journal article about the HP Touchpad. It told of how it wasn't on the market long and how HP slashed price to $99 to clear inventory. It went on to say that HP was going to resume (at least temporarily) the production. It seems they did sell out very quickly and no one seems to know when or where they will return. This made me think about a few things (not all connected with SuSE). Does anyone here have one of the HP Touchpads? Can anyone tell me about the WebOS that it has? Since this thing might be a short lived product, I would like to know if SuSE (or any other OS) has been installed on this thing. Since it might be that WebOS and apps to go with it will be limited, it would be nice to know that it could be used with something better supported such as SuSE. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903352704576540982671537062.ht... Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
--- On Sat, 9/3/11, Damon Register
From: Damon Register
Subject: [opensuse] HP Touchpad and SuSE To: "openSUSE Usergroup" Date: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 8:39 AM Yesterday I read a Wall Street Journal article about the HP Touchpad. It told of how it wasn't on the market long and how HP slashed price to $99 to clear inventory. It went on to say that HP was going to resume (at least temporarily) the production. It seems they did sell out very quickly and no one seems to know when or where they will return. This made me think about a few things (not all connected with SuSE). Does anyone here have one of the HP Touchpads? Can anyone tell me about the WebOS that it has? Since this thing might be a short lived product, I would like to know if SuSE (or any other OS) has been installed on this thing. Since it might be that WebOS and apps to go with it will be limited, it would be nice to know that it could be used with something better supported such as SuSE.
hmm.. can't say i have but almost all of the hp netbooks I've seen have had good linux compatibility. matter of fact some of them even had an option to ship with sled . personally I'm more interested in seeing android working on it than traditional linux.would be nice if kde/gnome had a tablet optimized version though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/3/2011 6:39 AM, Damon Register wrote:
Since this thing might be a short lived product, I would like to know if SuSE (or any other OS) has been installed on this thing.
The reason people are snapping them up at this cheap price is because the Android community has already go Android running on it (with limitations). This will only get better over time because HP has hinted that they have no objection to this effort and will supply documentation on the driver interfaces to the hardware (much of which already is used in other similar units). So the migration path of least resistance is to Android, (which is linux). -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/3/2011 11:56 PM, John Andersen wrote:
The reason people are snapping them up at this cheap price is because the Android community has already go Android running on it (with limitations). This will only get better over forgive me if I am a little slow. I had to read this several times but since I am not up to date on the tablet world, I am not sure I understand. Are you saying that there is some flavor of Android OS operating on the HP already?
time because HP has hinted that they have no objection to this effort and will supply documentation on the driver interfaces to the hardware (much of which already is used in other similar units).
So the migration path of least resistance is to Android, (which is linux). so, if HP ever does make more for $99, and I can get one, I might want to try the Android OS rather than looking at SuSE (assuming the WebOS didn't do what I needed)?
Damon Register -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/5/2011 10:00 AM, Damon Register wrote:
On 9/3/2011 11:56 PM, John Andersen wrote:
The reason people are snapping them up at this cheap price is because the Android community has already go Android running on it (with limitations). This will only get better over forgive me if I am a little slow. I had to read this several times but since I am not up to date on the tablet world, I am not sure I understand. Are you saying that there is some flavor of Android OS operating on the HP already?
Not an official flavor by any means. There are several developers working on this but the lead ones are using the CyanogenMod. A couple stories: http://www.pcworld.com/article/238617/touchdroid_will_turn_touchpads_into_an... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383391,00.asp One of the projects: http://www.fzservers.com/touchdroid/index.php?title=Main_Page Of course there is no rush here, because its a perfectly good tablet as it is.
time because HP has hinted that they have no objection to this effort and will supply documentation on the driver interfaces to the hardware (much of which already is used in other similar units).
So the migration path of least resistance is to Android, (which is linux). so, if HP ever does make more for $99, and I can get one, I might want to try the Android OS rather than looking at SuSE (assuming the WebOS didn't do what I needed)?
Damon Register
The (HP) did announce one more production run, rather than scrap all the inventory. They can't possibly make any profit at all at $99, (Best guess is that they are losing a hundred bucks on each sale). Quite frankly, porting Suse to one of these devices seems like a thankless task due to the problems with drivers etc. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (3)
-
Damon Register
-
John Andersen
-
michael getachew