On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Xavier Bestel<span dir="ltr"></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't see how the community release will be something else than<br>
command-line, at least on smartphones: all the graphic chips supported<br>
(or announced) so far use closed-source binary drivers (i.e. the one in<br>
the N900 or the Z6 Atom-based chipset recently announced by Intel).<br>
You won't be able to have a community-supported system on these.<br></blockquote><div><br>Just because it doesn't ship with closed source drivers doesn't mean you won't be able to use them. The stack includes plug-in options for things like drivers, codecs, etc. that can't ship with the freely downloadable OS. But if Nokia or another vendor were to make those drivers available regardless of their license, you'd still be able to use them -- or they might have their own distribution already taylored to a specific device. It seems pretty modular and the model is similar to that of Debian -- nothing but free stuff in the main repositories but there are still non-free and 3rd party repositories available to the end user.<br>
<br>-Gary <br></div></div><br>