Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements
[Posted March 21, 2012 by jake]
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| "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones-AT-redhat.com> |
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| Re: RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements |
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| Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:41:24 +0000 |
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:54:07PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> > Kevin, you don't know what you are talking about. Every cell phone has
> > an ARM cpu in it. Smart phone or otherwise. Almost every HDTV has an ARM
> > cpu in it. Almost every tablet has an ARM cpu in it.
>
> Several of those are not suitable devices to run a general purpose GNU/Linux
> distribution on, and even for those which are, why would they be our primary
> target?
It's a matter of time, and not very much time at that.
My £400 tablet has plenty enough power, storage and whatever else to
run Fedora. Fedora works pretty well on £200 Trim Slice servers.
Fedora is going to be shipped with £25 Raspberry Pi devices in the
near future.
Rich.
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