26 Jun
2018
26 Jun
'18
9:19 p.m.
On June 26, 2018 4:45 PM, deloptes <deloptes(a)gmail.com> wrote:
dep wrote:
> there's a world of configuration to do yet (font sizes are all over the
> place, for instance), but at this moment i have ttinity desktop
> environment running usefully on the gpd pocket computer, and everything i
> have tried works! this may be a first, though that could be because i'm
> the only one on the list foolish enough to try it.
do you mean the gemini board?
no -- until a whole lot of stuff gets sorted out with the gemini it won't be able to
run trinity. the only wm that works at all well on gemini is kwin, and the only reliable
desktop for the device is lxqt. everything else doesn't support the acceleerated
video, such as it is, and is deadly slow (as in libre office: type a character. wait.
character eventually appears. type next character . . .) it is alleged that the phone
works, except for the audio part, which some of us find important in making and receiving
telephone calls. i think the best hope for a non-googledroid gemini will be in sailfish --
the only linux distribution that doesn't run linux apps.
I think you qualify to be the first doing smart phone
with trinity :D (joke)
it was brief and painful. unlike the gpd pocket that as i write this is upgrading from
ubuntu 17.10 to ubuntu 18.04. but it's not a phone. it's a very small notebook
computer with an intel chip and 8 gigs of memory, though only 128 gigs of storage; (and i
remeber getting my first 1-gig drive and thinking i would never fill it up, and how i
would certainly never unironically use the phrase "only 128 gigs of storage.)
it's a full unix workstation the size of a small paperback book.
I guess most of us do not have such a thing. In fact
I try to not buy things
I do not need for sure ... each such thing means less time and need to
care .. and there is enough around already.
i'm guilty of doing that from time to time, but in this case i actually do need a good
portable device -- i need to ship pictures, captions, and stories from news events to the
newspaper office on deadline, and not carting around a notebook machine will be easier
both on me and on the notebook -- need something that fits in a jacket pocket. once i get
the gpd gadget configured, i'll get a 4G dongle for it. and that should solve the
problem until the gemini's development is farther along. the gpd is about twice the
size of the gemini.
though doing all this *is* fun.
dep
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