Dear John and Mike,
Am Montag, den 23.05.2011, 15:47 -0400 schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 20:42 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
On Mo 23 Mai 2011 20:04:16 CEST "John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
Hello, all. We've received a number of queries about running X2Go on an iPAD. My understanding to this point is that the absolute fundamentals are missing. However, I was recently sent the following:
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Given the above, what would it take to get X2Go to run on an iPAD using i-SSH? Is anyone interested if giving it a run? It's definitely outside of our skill set. Thanks - John
iPad - Test Platform
I cannot speak for Alex, but I remember the last time when a major
problem about X2go development for Mac was the loss (theft) of Alex's
MacBook.With an iPad the situation is probably similar: no hardware - i.e.
iPad - to test on available at all.Would it be a possibility to provide an iPad for testing/development?
AppStore and GPL software
There also has been an issue around AppStore and GPL in January 2011: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-gpl-apps-for-apples-app-store/8046
If there will be an X2goClient for iPad in the future it will surely
need a distribution pathway. How would that work? (I am not at all
familiar with Macs, but may I bring up the question nonetheless?).At the least, we can probably come up with a test user. I'm not sure if we can come up with a test iPAD; it's possible. Good point about the distribution. I'd imagine it has to go through the iStore. I don't know if the iSSH fellow would be interested in bundling the X2Go client. That would save us having to deal with the iStore but also remove the possible revenue stream. I do not know if there is any free / open source mechanism within the Apple ecosystem.
I'll also push back to some of the folks who are asking us and see if they have any suggestions.
XBMC [1] was ported to Apple hardware [2]. To get it installed I think
you need to jailbreak the system somehow and then you can use the
package manager (apt-get(?)) to install the software.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://xbmc.org/ [2] http://xbmc.org/theuni/2011/02/06/xbmc-update-for-ideviceappletv2/