Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform [LWN.net]

Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform

Posted Nov 14, 2008 20:37 UTC (Fri) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform by adj
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Great thanks. I'm not seeing a grossly different trend there versus Fedora. ppc trends a little lower than x86 even for Debian.

Assuming my math is right....the ratio of ppc/x86 binaries is:
Debian unstable main: 0.98x
Fedora rawhide: 0.98y

x > y : Debian wins, and I'm okay with that.

Saying anything more than that will require some detailed analysis which will get really complicated fast..due to packaging convention differences across the distributions.

It would be interesting to pick apart the differences between i386 and ppc in Debian unstable compared to fedora rawhide..comparing the set of missing packages in ppc. Assuming those distribution branches share a reasonably common build chain currently, that might help identify obvious distro specific patchset that should be evaluated by upstream and horse-traded across the distribution lines.

-jef

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Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform

Posted Nov 14, 2008 21:14 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Like I said before I think Fedora does a good job.

Also I am coming from user experience from a few years ago, so it seems like things have gotten better.

Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform

Posted Nov 15, 2008 1:37 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Also, Fedora users don't need to depend on many third party repositories. For users needing patent encumbered non-free software they used to go to Livna. Now they can go to RPMFusion instead which is a merger of many such third party repositories re-using much of the infrastructure bits developed within Fedora. The maintainers are usually involved with Fedora as well so there isn't much of a difference overall including PPC support. The difference from Debian is that such a repository is split away completely and is a independent effort not included or enabled by default, in part due to legal reasons.