The Linaro consortium debuts

Posted Jun 3, 2010 18:57 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: The Linaro consortium debuts by rahulsundaram
Parent article: The Linaro consortium debuts

Well the only evidence I see is that Intel is a major competitor that would like to see all the different ARM variants be utterly destroyed and replaced with Intel-specific processors and chipsets.

The other evidence I see is that Debian is the only major Linux distribution that has top-notch support for non-x86 stuff. Between Debian vs everything else I'd definitely choose Debian.

How many other distributions do a good job of providing cross-compiling toolkits and the easy ability to run non-x86 code on a x86 machine via qemu?

The Linaro consortium debuts

Posted Jun 3, 2010 22:24 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Gentoo?

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/

The Linaro consortium debuts

Posted Jun 4, 2010 3:29 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

Intel and ARM compete with each other more aggressively than before and that's a good thing! Meego is RPM based and took advantage of the Fedora ARM effort. It is myopic to think that companies hate each other or any particular technology. Every major IT company that I am aware of is willing to compete or partner with other companies and work with operating systems or package management systems or whatever opportunistically.

The Linaro consortium debuts

Posted Jun 4, 2010 8:24 UTC (Fri) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, like Apple and Adobe with regards to Flash. Totally rational behavior, no feeling whatsoever involved.
IMO all the Linaro folks see Meego as Intel-controlled and RPM focused, which is probably the right way to see it although it is a Linuxfoundation project.
So Canonical and the ARM vendors made their own. I don't think they have many problems with the Nokia/ARM(and now obsolete Maemo) side of things.
But don't get me wrong, I think Linaro is a worthwhile effort.

The Linaro consortium debuts

Posted Jun 4, 2010 10:57 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

I didn't claim that there is no feelings possible but you will notice that Adobe and Apple continue to work together on many things still. You can bet that they will be willing to set aside difference if Flash was actually crucial to Apple's success. In this case, there is no evidence to claim that this consortium is somehow anti Intel or especially anti RPM. That is just nonsense.