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LCA: The past, present, and future of Ubuntu on ARMLCA: The past, present, and future of Ubuntu on ARMPosted Jan 20, 2012 20:06 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)Parent article: LCA: The past, present, and future of Ubuntu on ARM
It'd be nice if he at least _mentioned_ that Debian bootstrapped armhf first (first half of 2011: see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/ ). It's quite a lot easier the second time as you actually have a system to run on.
And that we've been maintaining a 'general purpose ARM distro' for over a decade.
Not to say that Ubuntu/canonical haven't been doing good things (fixed a lot of thumb2 bugs in their v7/thumb rebuild, doing good work on SMP and server load testing), but a bit of credit where it's due is appreciated.
'First OS to support A15', indeed. Beware marketers bearing shiny gifts and talking crap.
Yeah OK, this article made me grumpy.
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LCA: The past, present, and future of Ubuntu on ARM Posted Jan 26, 2012 15:35 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
My sentiment is similar. If I get an ARM server under my jurisdiction, I will probably install Debian, as I don't see the big benefit of Ubuntu on a server.
However, I see Ubuntu/Canonical mainly as the commercial arm (no pun intended) of Debian, so I don't mind their own-horn-tooting too much. 95% of that horn is still made by Debian.
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