http://www.osnews.com/story/20532/Ubuntu-on-ARM_to_Target_Handhelds Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:29 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?337240 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337240 Perhaps this stuff will finally breath some life into my basically useless Neo Freerunner. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Parry Hotter) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337242 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337242 Shouldn't be so freaking hard:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337250 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337250 I need moral (and other) support to beat them at it Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mmu_man) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337280 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337280 more likely, this could have interesting effects on the use of ARM in things like netbooks.

and it could also mean that one can run full blown ubuntu on the pandora! Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hobgoblin) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337282 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337282 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? Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (3rdalbum) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337289 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337289 I would like to see what they come up with. Hopefully some cool stuff. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (motang) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337296 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337296 My Nokia 770 runs Maemo Mapper, which is a *wonderful* mapping package supporting Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Virtual Earth amongst others.

Dunno if a modern Ubuntu would ever be able to boot on a 64MB device, though. :-( Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337297 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337297 I might as well add that Google Maps for PalmOS 2.0.2.0 works just fine in the Garnet VM on the 770, and seems to be able to link via wifi just fine.

It's only real advantage is the ability to interact with the GVM address book -- and maybe also the traffic overlay. Otherwise, Maemo Mapper kicks its butt three ways from Sunday (higher res, more maps, etc). :-)Edited 2008-11-14 19:39 UTC Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337331 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337331 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 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?337346 http://www.osnews.com/thread?337346 Heh, RTFA, they are targeting the ARM Cortex based SoCs, so that excludes the ARM9 that's in the FreeRunner Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ithamar) Comments