Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Sep 2009 17:30 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Hardware, Embedded Systems We all know (and love?) ARM as the company which focusses on licensing designs for power-efficient yet still powerful processors, mostly used in embedded devices. The Cambridge company has been looking to expand into the netbook market, and has now announced a new step in this process with a number of new multicore Cortex-A9 designs.
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RE[3]: Linux on ARM + Wine
by viton on Sun 20th Sep 2009 11:42 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Linux on ARM + Wine"
viton
Member since:
2005-08-09

The Wine server running native on ARM, and the Wine client running emulated.

So you want to emulate windows apps? What a waste of precious resources!
It just doesn't make any sense.

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RE[4]: Linux on ARM + Wine
by WereCatf on Sun 20th Sep 2009 12:12 in reply to "RE[3]: Linux on ARM + Wine"
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2006-02-15

So you want to emulate windows apps? What a waste of precious resources!
It just doesn't make any sense.


Why do people want to run Windows apps under Linux, BSD or OSX? Simple; because they are either used to those apps, there are no alternatives, or the alternatives just don't cut it. So of course it makes sense, atleast to those people can't get by with alternatives. But I think they'd be better off using Windows then altogether.

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RE[5]: Linux on ARM + Wine
by viton on Sun 20th Sep 2009 18:18 in reply to "RE[4]: Linux on ARM + Wine"
viton Member since:
2005-08-09

So WHY should one use non-compatible hardware platform with alternative OS for sluggish emulation of x86+Windows?
Isn't it simpler and more logical just to use Windows on x86?

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