____/ thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Monday 14 January 2008 14:25 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Has it not been added yet? An article that was published recently gave me
>> the impression that all this fancy-shmancy 3-D stuff (like Google Earth on
>> Android) was already available for the developers. But you're probably
>> right. Maybe it's still in development, so it's 'out there'... but not quite
>> out there for real. I was actually quite surprised to find that Compiz
>> worked out of the box on my PC at home, which is very low-end and has no
>> GPU... it seems like 3-D and hardware-accelerated UIs are becoming standard
>> in the Linux desktop... and even phones. GTK now has them... Plasma makes
>> use of that too in KDE 4... and there's Compiz Fusion, of course.
>
> During the last sale of developer's units (earlier in 2007) the 3D
> GPU was not enabled yet. The estimate was December 2007 but I think
> that has been pushed out spring 2008, unless I missed another dev
> release in their somewhere. Note I am talking only about state of
> the reference hardware, not the OpenMoko software.
Yes, spring 2008 is what I read about earlier. They have just signed a deal
that promises good exposure in a country that is receptive to openness in
technology -- Germany. When Android launched I thought it was going to squash
OpenMoko, but it doesn't seem like it anymore.
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