02-11-2016, 10:21 PM
first off taros
I am quite the active member in the development community (open source). What I am critiquing here is the fact that the "Ubuntu" support as implied on the campaign is only true to a certain degree. It's not like there was a prebuilt image (alpha/beta/stable) ready from day 1. It was through those in the community that a port (headless thus far) came to life (Thanks Apritzel & umiddelb you guys rock).
What I meant by an "Official Pine64" version was more along the lines of something they had already in the works that others can collaborate on or at the very least bare minimum image to work from.
Furthermore do you see the Pine64 listed here at all https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/s...get-snaps/ ?
For those who want to run an OpenHab server they are gonna have to wait until some headway is made with the Linux side of things (last I remember OpenHab server doesn't run on Android, but I could be mistaken who knows).
I understand things take time but from what was gathered from the campaign was a board that had something other than Android ready to go. There are users posting and asking when will Ubuntu be ready and if there will be 3d Acceleration available (something I myself am wondering if Pine can pull off when others using Mali couldn't).
It may have been a better idea, IMHO, to have mentioned planned support (the words coming soon or in the works would have sufficed).
As of right now the Pine is another Android device (a powerful one at this price point). If you are looking for a media player I would say its perfect, but if you are looking to develop on it you will have to wait until a stable linux image comes around before diving in. If you are lucky and know what to do in terms of building and compiling your own custom distro to run on this board then go for it.
I am more than sure you are aware that not everyone knows how to compile a kernel or what make is
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taros nothing would make me happier than to see the Pine64 become a great success, but it would have been great if Ubuntu (or any distro) was ready to go (atleast at a minimum capacity say base headless image) from the time the Pine team started shipping boards out.
A Timeline on an Ubuntu port would be greatful at this point by most in the community I'm sure.
As for myself I have no problem doing things the source way, but wouldn't mind having a repo of binaries ready to use either.
Perhaps by the time I get my board most of what I have talked about will be irrelevant and we will have a distro running on the device (and if we are lucky enough 3d acceleration too under linux)
I am quite the active member in the development community (open source). What I am critiquing here is the fact that the "Ubuntu" support as implied on the campaign is only true to a certain degree. It's not like there was a prebuilt image (alpha/beta/stable) ready from day 1. It was through those in the community that a port (headless thus far) came to life (Thanks Apritzel & umiddelb you guys rock).
What I meant by an "Official Pine64" version was more along the lines of something they had already in the works that others can collaborate on or at the very least bare minimum image to work from.
Furthermore do you see the Pine64 listed here at all https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/s...get-snaps/ ?
For those who want to run an OpenHab server they are gonna have to wait until some headway is made with the Linux side of things (last I remember OpenHab server doesn't run on Android, but I could be mistaken who knows).
I understand things take time but from what was gathered from the campaign was a board that had something other than Android ready to go. There are users posting and asking when will Ubuntu be ready and if there will be 3d Acceleration available (something I myself am wondering if Pine can pull off when others using Mali couldn't).
It may have been a better idea, IMHO, to have mentioned planned support (the words coming soon or in the works would have sufficed).
As of right now the Pine is another Android device (a powerful one at this price point). If you are looking for a media player I would say its perfect, but if you are looking to develop on it you will have to wait until a stable linux image comes around before diving in. If you are lucky and know what to do in terms of building and compiling your own custom distro to run on this board then go for it.
I am more than sure you are aware that not everyone knows how to compile a kernel or what make is
.taros nothing would make me happier than to see the Pine64 become a great success, but it would have been great if Ubuntu (or any distro) was ready to go (atleast at a minimum capacity say base headless image) from the time the Pine team started shipping boards out.
A Timeline on an Ubuntu port would be greatful at this point by most in the community I'm sure.
As for myself I have no problem doing things the source way, but wouldn't mind having a repo of binaries ready to use either.
Perhaps by the time I get my board most of what I have talked about will be irrelevant and we will have a distro running on the device (and if we are lucky enough 3d acceleration too under linux)
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