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 Originally Posted by Elysian893
The VNC running on the phone is running on a DirectFB(Framebuffer just in case)... Its not running on X. It actually kills Luna, so you have a black screen until you start DirectFB and the VNC client. Same for the NES emulator, same for Doom. Luna is not X windows, it is a proprietary Palm interface, made specifically for this phone, with the Cortex A8 in mind. Do you realize just how sloppy the phone would be if you could just run any old Linux app on it in Luna? Thats why you can't run linux apps on the iphone, or android, besides behind the scenes stuff.
The issue was being refuted was that webOS is a new OS (it isn't) and that it it doesn't have the standard Linux API (it does). No claim as to the performance was made. But I do thank you for pointing out they used the Framebuffer. And it still doesn't change the fact that an embedded X server couldn't be ported to the platform.
But you have supported what I had to say about it: there are lots of standard UNIX apps that can be made to work on the Pre without a lot of effort. That was all there was to the point. Simple... and why is it that the simplest people miss the simple ideas?
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