Thread: Solving the most important problem for Maemo/Harmattan: App Availability. Here is a solution.
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hobarrera is offline hobarrera
2012-03-04 , 01:05
Posts: 58 | Thanked: 73 times | Joined on Jan 2012 @ Argentina
#22
Originally Posted by yaavarumKaeleer View Post
What did Linus do?
He was frustrated with stupid OSes which were bloaty / buggy and decided to write his own OS based on the principle of "getting things done in a straight forward manner".
Actually, linux started as a hobby, much like many maemo apps do nowadays. Generally, proyects that start as a hobby do quite well, since it's in the authors geniune interest to make it work properly, and his main goal isn't to make money out of it.

Originally Posted by cddiede View Post
LET'S MAKE SUPER HAPPY FUN TIME FULL ANDROIDS VM ON N9!!!


JUST LIKE LINUS DID WHEN HE MAKE FULL WINDOWS VM ON LINUX!!!



What the HELL didn't anyone think of this before? Thank you, yaavarumKaeleer. You are truly a visionary and have saved all of Meego land.
My eyes bled as I read this.


On a more serious side:
1) You don't need to pay a license to virtualize android, IF you can get somewone to write a VM for you, it's totally legal to use android on it, and to download [free] apps onto it.

2) The N900's hardware can't run a virtual machine. It'd run out of battery in a few hours.

3) If there's no android VM for ubuntu, or even windows (which have far larger userbases, how do you expect to get support for one on maemo?
Last edited by hobarrera; 2012-03-04 at 01:11.