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It's sad to hear this but it's exactly what I predicted 2 years ago. I even provided an alternative that would work: use an "Android Core" as the base operating system, instead of Mer Linux, then port KDE to this "Android Core":

http://www.elpauer.org/2012/09...

Interestingly, this is exactly what Digia did for Qt, with the Boot to Qt (AKA Qt Enterprise Embedded) solution, a while after I made my proposal.

Trying to port Linux to Android tablets is a dead end. They will get Mer, OpenWrt, etc running on ONE tablet a year. If at all.

The alternative is to consider Android as a different Unix platform, with its limitations, and port KDE, Gnome, etc to Android. More details here:

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1191

That path would reach potentially every Android tablet (and phone!). Easy? No. Doable? Sure thing.

So when browsers claim to be fully HTML5 compliant, will that even have any meaning anymore?

That was one of the points I made in my "HTML5 for everything?" post 7 months ago:

http://www.elpauer.org/?p=1134

"Or maybe it’s about time to define actual “HTML5 profiles”. ACID3 seems to be too weak of a profile: two very different browsers may pass ACID3 yet a webapp would work with one browser and fail with the other due to bugs, missing features/added features, etc."

I said that one year ago:

A wish a day 7: make emerge a generic package manager for Windows
A wish a day 6: AppStore-like installer for KDE on Windows

Intel AppUp includes open source software but it's not *only* open source.

It's sad how open source and Linux distributions failed to capitalize on this appstore-frenzy.

I said that one year ago:

A wish a day 7: make emerge a generic package manager for Windows
A wish a day 6: AppStore-like installer for KDE on Windows

Intel AppUp includes open source software but it's not *only* open source.

It's sad how open source and Linux distributions failed to capitalize on this appstore-frenzy.

With browsers being released every 3 months, can we really trust webapps to work in 2 years?

Best explained here: HTML5 for everything?

Obligatory link to a good autotools alternative: CMake. And my CMake tutorial, Learning CMake.

Check http://windows.kde.org/ and use the WinKDE installer to install it: http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe Amarok is available on Windows, too. I think it's not included in the installer yet but you can certainly donwnload it from http://winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/releases/unstable/latest/ and extract the ZIP files yourself. This is what it looks like: http://www.elpauer.org/?p=259

And what about an iPod with wificast support?

I'm a Spanish Telecommunications Engineer.

I know of cell-phone technologies. And I think it's not difficult to locate a cell-phone if you the base-station can receive signal from it.

For those who don't know how this works, here is a brief explanation: I have a cell-phone ("mobile terminal", MT) and I'm sending signal to a base-station (BS), and the BS says to my MT how much power it has to use and how long before its time slot has to send the signal. Knowing the power and the time, it's easy to locate a cell-phone using at least data from three base-stations (yes, you have to use triangulation).

I think it's not that difficult. In fact, it's easy and the police uses this approach to locate people. Israel even uses this way to kill terrorists (or potential terrorists).

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
Enginyer Tècnic de Telecomunicacions, esp. Telemàtica
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