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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2015-02-15 15:01:15 -0500 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2015-02-15 15:01:15 -0500 |
commit | de1c62b5fe0162b6c821a88a27a1b9f6ff10c569 (patch) | |
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Update hacking guide - PDAs are dead, long live smartphones.
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diff --git a/www/hacking.html.in b/www/hacking.html.in index b69853d8..1c23520a 100644 --- a/www/hacking.html.in +++ b/www/hacking.html.in @@ -154,19 +154,20 @@ job is to know the grotty details so nobody else has to.</p> <h1 id="audience">Audience and supported hardware</h1> -<p>Our paradigm user, the one we have in mind when making design choices, -is running navigational or wardriving software on a Linux laptop or -PDA. Some of our developers are actively interested in supporting +<p>Our paradigm user, the one we have in mind when making design +choices, is running navigational or wardriving software on a Linux-based +mobile device (including both laptops and Android mobile +devices). Some of our developers are actively interested in supporting GPS-with-SBC (Single-Board-Computer) hardware such as is used in balloon telemetry, marine navigation, and aviation.</p> <p>These two use cases have similar issues in areas like client -interfaces and power/duty-cycle management. The one place where -they differ substantially is that in the SBC case we generally +interfaces and power/duty-cycle management. The one place where they +differ substantially is that in the SBC and Android cases we generally know in advance what devices will be connected and when. Thus, by -designing for the less predictable laptop/PDA environment, we -cover both. But it is not by accident that the source code can be built -with support for only any single GPS type compiled in.</p> +designing for the less predictable laptop environment, we cover both. +But it is not by accident that the source code can be built with +support for only one single GPS type compiled in.</p> <p>While we will support survey-grade GPSes when and if we have that hardware for testing, our focus will probably remain on inexpensive |