On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:16:55 -0600 Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:10 -0600, James Szinger wrote: > > I also agree that attempting > > to install Fedora on an iPad is not a good idea. > > And why is that ? You've heard of Yellow Dog Linux ? You know that > Meego is being installed on some Android devices and Android has been > installed on the N900 ? Granted they aren't mainstream, fully > operational, but its early in these efforts. Drivers. The iPad has lots of custom hardware with no pubic documentation. Getting Linux support for such hardware is usually a long an tedious process. Compare the feature sets of the closed source and open source nvidia graphics drivers for an example. When I first tried Fedora on an early Intel MacBook, there were plenty of rough edges. It took until Fedora 12 before everything mostly worked. Getting Linux on the iPad will be a lot of work without much benefit. The source code for android is published, so it should be possible to port the driver to a regular Linux. No such groundwork exists for iPad. > If nobody else is going to ship a decent tablet, the iPad may be all > we have to work with. And I don't want to run IOS or whatever its > called. I think in the next year there will be a variety of tablets on the market, and some of them will be decent (for various values of decent). The new HP Slate 500 seems promising. HP offers FreeDOS and Windows 7, so getting Fedora running with Meego seems quite possible, and maybe easy. Jim -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
