Paul,

I thought you might find this interesting, and, be able to discern AND
explain the implications. I've been up since 0300, so my faculties are
waning.

Thanks,

Perry
CH801STOL a/c
N801YZ (pre/temp. registered)

http://www.slashgear.com/android-running-on-eee-pc-1000-netbook-0228541/

excerpt:

"Google may have started out with cellphones for their Android  platform,
but that doesn?t mean they?re limiting their future options.  The guys
over at VentureBeat have loaded the open-source OS onto an Eee PC 1000
netbook, with a display almost five times the size of the T-Mobile G1,
and aside from some initial networking and sound issues Android is now
running normally on the ASUS machine.
Screen resolution adjusted automatically, and while digging around in
the code they came across not only the phone policy but a MID (mobile
internet device) policy suggesting that Google are already considering
netbooks in these relatively early Android builds.  One of Google?s  own
developers, Dima Zavin, ported the platform onto another Intel CPU- based
netbook, proving that there was no real technical issue preventing it.

Getting Android ready for the Eee PC took around four hours.  That  left
VentureBeat with a working netbook capable of media playback, internet
access, messaging and, presumably, if the 1000 had a 3G modem,  wireless
broadband.  Since the open-source version of Android doesn?t currently
support the Android Market, downloading apps from there wasn?t  possible;
however, they did find Czech, German, English (Australia, United  Kingdom,
Singapore, United States), Spanish, Japanese, German and Dutch  translation
options, suggesting launches of the platform in some those countries
may be next."

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Android features:
   * Application framework enabling reuse and replacement of       components
   * Dalvik virtual machine optimized for mobile devices
   * Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
   * Optimized graphics powered by a custom 2D graphics library; 3D       graphics
     based on the OpenGL ES 1.0 specification (hardware acceleration       optional)
   * SQLite for structured data storage
   * Media support for common audio, video, and still image formats       (MPEG4,
     H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, GIF)
   * GSM Telephony (hardware dependent)
   * Bluetooth, EDGE, 3G, and WiFi (hardware dependent)
   * Camera, GPS, compass, and accelerometer (hardware dependent)
   * Rich development environment including a device emulator, tools
     for debugging, memory and performance profiling, and a plugin for
     the Eclipse IDE
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Well it sounds like just another distro and programming environment
for Linux. Which is great for us EeePC 1000 owners. The GSM  Telephony sounds
interesting for my use.

The Linux the EeePC 1000 came with already does most of the the other
stuff including wireless broadband. I am already using the heck out  of that.

This will probably result in a lot more software options
for those of us running Linux with Goggle behind it. In theory
a lot of Mac applications can easily be ported to Linux as
the Mac BSD Unix operating system is very similar to Linux.

MS can kiss their butt goodbye any day now. The stock is already down
and dropping. Couldn't happen to nicer bunch of guys with their silly
mandatory software activation imposition. I refuse to buy Windows  software
that requires activation. That broke the MS camel's back to my way  of thinking.
When the screen goes blue I never tell MS why :)

Paul Lamar

One significant difference between Android and the 'stock' linux
distro is no X11. Android has a new, unique window manager based on
direct framebuffer I/O, which both significantly accelerates video and
greatly reduces the memory footprint. This component is the enabler
for Linux on portable devices. (note the bullet on 'optimized
graphics...')

--Kenny A.