Thread: N9 with an Atom CPU?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-02-06 , 03:16
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#16
Originally Posted by Radu View Post
It's not a moot issue at all. A lot of applications use Open GL 1.4 or 2.0, so they won't work if the only OpenGL context provided is 4.0, as they are not backwards compatible.
This looks like an issue to take up with the application developer.

ARM is pretty well known in the embedded space, since the vast majority of embedded devices use ARM. And having one supplier instead of multiple ones is not a good thing.
If you select OMAP your only supplier is TI. Same for any other ARM SoC.

So long as we can use 'vanilla' Linux, such as Fedora or Ubuntu then it would be nice. Then we can use virtualization (or even wine) to run Win stuff. But I don't consider Meego a "real" OS, it is developed for embedded devices not for desktop.
MeeGo is quite the real OS. It's been designed to use all of the same libraries that are used in Fedora and Ubuntu. No "bionic" or "uClibc" or custom, used-nowhere-else widget toolkits and GUI subsystems. The only thing "designed" about it are the reference user interfaces.

When I think of an OS I think of the applications ecosystem as well, not just the kernel and GNU stuff. Can it run Skype, Flash, Opera, and other closed source applications without specific support from those application developers?
Well, on x86 with Linux, the answer is generally yes. But then, since they're closed source you're stuck depending on their support regardless of the OS you use.
 

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