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Originally Posted by Ism View Post
According to this article
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2097004728.html

... "Speaking at the Embedded Linux Conference in Mountain View this week, Christian showed an N800 tablet running the GIMP, an open source image processing package that he said worked well on the device. "

Does that mean that it is possible in the not so far away future to run GIMP even with OS2008. Although this is Ubuntu port it shouldn't be
too difficult to port it to Maemo? I always thought that GIMP would be too impractical: slow and memory hungry with clunky interface for my N800. How can it run "well"?
If I've learned one thing from my years of following technology related news, its that you never trust anyone who waves something around in front of a crowd at a technology show and says that the thing he's gotten working for the first time is "running well". If they do a demo, they're always careful to skirt around the unstable stuff, or even worse, they just run a mock-up of the technology. I suspect the latter with the whole tablet video-out thing that supposedly could run HD video from the tablet... riiiight.

I mean, come on. GIMP on the tablet running well? I can only assume that means he got it to compile and run -- that's still a long shot from "running well." Heck, if it were that easy, we'd have VLC and Abiword and a bunch of other stuff on the tablet now.
 

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