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 Originally Posted by kill_Dano
I want to install this on my Car PC. I suppose driver support would be a big deal. Everything pretty much has linux support now adays...
I am still thinking of this as a GUI aspect... maybe I'm still stuck in February. But webOS was supposed to be loaded on HP PC's running windows... I have seen other people talking about running webOS on linux boxes.
My current concept would be getting the gui working as an overlay of a linux based car PC. Then we work out the app aspects of running on this skinned linux GUI. It is an imperfect concept at this point, but would be a replacement for the GUIs currently running out there on auto PC's.
Then hopefully with more hands on the OS as a GUI, we see more dedicated development.
Once the source is opened, I think the first step is to see if homebrew can get some extra features added to the bluetooth keyboard input of webOS. If we can get more keyboard features, webOS is very viable as an auto PC and HTPC interface. The other key feature for the potential of widespread adoption would be support for actual bluetooth controllers.
These are the two things you need to encourage non webOS users to give any form of webOS support a shot. The interface is already there for touch, but limited keyboard support and no blue tooth controller support is going to make a lot of auto PC folks say no from the jump off.
One other thought, multi monitor support... at least 2 zones, this may be the best argument for skinning the GUI over another OS distro... not sure. I am still kicking around a lot of ideas in my head, waiting to see what comes out and go from there.
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