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Why bother supporting ARM?Why bother supporting ARM?Posted Apr 5, 2012 16:43 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: Why bother supporting ARM? by fatrat Parent article: Why bother supporting ARM?
But your phone's screen will (hopefully) never occupy 30 degrees of your vision like your computer's monitor probably does. It's not just the number of pixels, it's the number of letters your eyes can distinguish on the screen. And, while you may be able to attach a keyboard and monitor and interact with it like a PC, the normal situation will be that you only have the built-in hardware handy when you want to use it. Not to mention that your phone has a much higher chance of getting dropped and run over by a truck.
And, while phones are moving from "definite gadget" to "always gadget, sometimes also PC", there are plenty of ARM-based systems that are definitely not; you're not going to plug an external monitor and keyboard into your desktop computer's hard drive, even though it's also likely to have a more powerful processor than your first Linux PC before long. If anything, the popularity of non-PC gadgets which could sensibly run Linux (relative to PCs) is going to increase over time as more devices which were traditionally mechanical or hard-coded become smart. (I really want to run Linux on my washing machine. It's a great piece of equipment, but it doesn't always have a program for what I want.)
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Why bother supporting ARM? Posted Apr 5, 2012 16:58 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This isn't just about phones, it's about tablets, some of which have optional keyboards in a laptop format. And phones can be plugged into large displays these days (iPhone 4S and others).
Why bother supporting ARM? Posted Apr 5, 2012 17:28 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] But your phone's screen will (hopefully) never occupy 30 degrees of your vision like your computer's monitor probably does. And, while phones are moving from "definite gadget" to "always gadget, sometimes also PC", there are plenty of ARM-based systems that are definitely not; you're not going to plug an external monitor and keyboard into your desktop computer's hard drive, even though it's also likely to have a more powerful processor than your first Linux PC before long. I don't think there are any plans to target all ARM devices out there with a single Fedora image.
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