Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by takyon on Sunday October 29 2017, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the year-of-linux-down-by-the-docks dept.

Samsung has announced a new app called Linux on Galaxy that works with its DeX docking station to bring a full Linux desktop experience to Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphone users.

Comments from IDC sounded skeptical saying the concept is "interesting at best", but "the No. 1 challenge is that there is no public infrastructure for where you can dock your phone, other than in your home or office... Where you really would like to have that is at a hotel, at an airport, etc."

Samsung is touting their DeX environment as "supremely better than all the earlier attempts to have a smartphone docking into a big screen".


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Monday October 30 2017, @09:46PM (2 children)

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 30 2017, @09:46PM (#589708) Journal

    "I don't sit down and develop on my phone because that's silly, but there have been times it's nice to do what I want, when I want, how I want. For me that is a price above rubies."

    That's also a good point. Once upon a time I felt like writing some small stuff for my Nokia and by the time I had the time to take a second look at it they had practically discontinued all development "support" (including sending all the stuff —SDKs, docs, even tutorials, lots of handholding, APIs— that I had found the last time I looked at their site, all of that right into their own /dev/null for "archival" in nowhereland). Later yet I found that someone else had figured out and documented a way to develop on it independently of "all that had been" (and the JavaME approach of theirs is likely still feasible) but meh...

    Actually one of the things I wanted to do was to "develop" on it ...on a dumb phone... ...using the number pad of course... (so far it's actually all incredibly neat, think ultra-super-duper-dynamically-adaptive-auto-complete neat; the ideas could/should work) ...preferrrrrably doing Python... ...and for that I was going to have to dust off the Java books and do JavaME in some outdated special edition depending on the version of the software in the firmware of the specific model of an old phone?...

    ...well just call me lazy please :D

    --
    Bite harder Ouroboros, bite! tails.boum.org/ linux USB CD secure desktop IRC *crypt tor (not endorsements (XKeyScore))
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday October 30 2017, @11:44PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday October 30 2017, @11:44PM (#589764) Journal

    Actually one of the things I wanted to do was to "develop" on it ...on a dumb phone... ...using the number pad of course...

    Holy crap! That is a level of masochism I have never even guessed at before. I bow to you.

    Hope you do it someday, though, because that has geek hall of fame written all over it.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.
    • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:40AM

      by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:40AM (#592095) Journal

      It is increasingly unlikely but yeah it does sound "fun" in a most insane way :D

      It wouldn't be much more than a novelty thing these days when everyone can and do get themselves a smartphone and could buy a roll-up keyboard.

      For a novelty item it would involve a lot of work though, at least to make it really interesting. The input part is mostly custom word processing and wouldn't be too bad on its own except to figure out what would be sensible for all the chording going on but the really fun part would start when the language itself is included/ported and then if one had gotten that far to combine it all into an added interpreter (I was aiming at Python).

      Prototyping would use a number pad on a keyboard on a normal PC or similar. The input would function as "chorded coding" for a whole programming language, a mode selection or menu equivalent (most likely a dedicated starting key), as well as a chording for the full keyboard to input numeric values, variable and function names, etc., and also a sort of advanced auto-complete for programming structures and name completion for previously used variables, functions, etc. (requires list selection functionality).

      The really nasty part enters once one tries to get this working on phone pads and phone screens and so on that are more or less unique for any phone model and/or sub-release of said model (which phone "OS" at which revision and so on and which software functionality and updates they have and so on)...

      Too much work XD

      If some crazy teenager (that is meant more as an energy quantity than anything else) wants to do it then they're free to do whatever they like: I too will be very impressed at the "hall of fame" nerdiness of someone completing something like it :)

      I'm sure there's lots of people out there who could breeze through it but I fully understand it if it doesn't feel like it's worth it since I'm not doing it myself :)

      Then again if it turns out we'll all live a few hundred years more than we expected to then it's not impossible I'll get back to you :D (until then it's in the "crazy ideas" stack with all the other ones —it's nowhere near the top of the "crasy stack" though so even with a few hundred years the prospect doesn't look too good for it).

      As my silly "user bio" says I'm "likely insane" :)

      --
      Bite harder Ouroboros, bite! tails.boum.org/ linux USB CD secure desktop IRC *crypt tor (not endorsements (XKeyScore))