Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Nov 2008 18:12 UTC, submitted by DeviceGuru
Canonical Ltd., commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, says it's porting Ubuntu to the ARM RISC processor architecture. Ubuntu on ARM will target netbooks and other emerging device categories requiring a "rich, always-connected, mobile computing experience, without compromising battery life." The ARM version of Ubuntu, due next April, initially will support the ARMv7 RISC architecture, including SoCs (system-on-chip processors) based on ARM Ltd's Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 cores.
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2008-05-26
It's not much of a port, is it?
Everything in Debian can be compiled for ARM, and all the Ubuntu-specific parts of the system are written in Python anyway and will "just run" on ARM.
I am, however, concerned that Canonical is stretching itself thinly. The market for ARM-based netbooks is roughly zero, because they can't run Windows and they can't run proprietary Linux programs like Flash Player and Google Earth. I thought Canonical was in bed with Intel anyway on the handheld front?