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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2007-03-14
And yet again, the world is ignorant.. I thought the Linux kernel already supported ARM?
So.. what exactly are they porting? bash shell scripts? I'm fairly certain those will run unmodified.
Linux users are silly.. the all share the same kernel, and a slightly modified user land, when someone changes one line of shell code they announce it to the world and demand a royal leg hump.
:-)
Edited 2008-11-15 11:42 UTC