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Fedora 18 for ARM released
The Fedora ARM team is pleased to announce that Fedora 18 for ARM is now available for download from: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases... The Fedora 18 for ARM release includes pre-built images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice (Tegra), Pandaboard (OMAP4), GuruPlug (Kirkwood), and Beagleboard (OMAP3) hardware platforms. Fedora 18 for ARM also includes an installation tree in the yum repository which may be used to PXE-boot a kickstart-based installation on systems that support this option, such as the Calxeda EnergyCore (HighBank). Please visit the announcement page for additional information and links to specific images: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F18_Relea... Join us on the IRC in #fedora-arm on Freenode or send feedback and comments to the ARM mailing list. On behalf of the Fedora ARM team, Paul -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel (Log in to post comments)
Fedora 18 for ARM released Posted Feb 7, 2013 18:47 UTC (Thu) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]
Hooray. I've been running the beta on my chromebook and it works really well. The fedora-arm team have done a great job and are very helpful.
Fedora 18 for ARM released Posted Feb 8, 2013 10:59 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
You mean Samsung ARM chromebook? Has the warning about speakers from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Samsung_C... still holds true?
Fedora 18 for ARM released Posted Feb 8, 2013 14:27 UTC (Fri) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link]
Yes, a Samsung ARM chromebook.
I think the risk of speaker frying is still real (but has been fixed in Ubuntu, so should get fixed in F18 soon, if not already). I haven't found it to be a problem, if you don't fiddle with alsamixer there is no danger of damage. I don't listen to much digital music (my vinyl gets jealous if I do) and if I want to watch a video I can reboot into ChromeOS, but the purpose of getting the chromebook was to write/test code while commuting or when I travel away from home, so I want a GNU/Linux machine with good battery life and a bigger screen and keyboard than my eeepc -- audio is not required :)
For my purposes, F18 ARM (with xfce) works quite nicely.
Fedora 18 for ARM released Posted Feb 8, 2013 14:45 UTC (Fri) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
Thanks for the info!
I consider getting that chrome book just for the fact that it does not have a fan and the harddrive is SSD so it should be a very quiet and lasting notebook.
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