Droid

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
>> 
>> Well, to be fair, the Droid is apparently Linux-based.  However, I don't see 
>> anything about it running "normal" x86 Linux apps.
>
>My understanding is that it's not a linux distribution, it's an OS unto
>itself.  It uses a modified linux kernel, but that's about it.  Developers
>develop in Java.  It's not like it's running X11 and you can just fire up
>an xterm.

I don't know about the Droid, but iSSH on the iPad allows one to
run X11 programs on *nix systems via ssh connections.  It has a
good xterm emulation, but has the same problems with vertical
character alignment as normal xterms and gnome-terminal do when
running FilePro.

I have found that running python curses applications work fine as
does my Unify-based accounting software (but then I wrote C
routines to replace Unify's so I do most screen handling with them).

Frankly I was amazed to find that iSSH does X11, and I'm not sure
what I would do with it.

Bill
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