Hey guys, Just a heads-up regarding ARM support in Luna: our stable PPA got armhf enablement recently and everything (except Pantheon Greeter, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter/+bug/1214833) should run fine on ARM, at least in theory. You'd need decent GPU drivers though, because Gala requires hardware acceleration, and software rendering on ARM is in a pitiful state.
However, our OS-specific patches repository did not get ARM enablement, and it's unlikely to get it anytime soon because we patched some really heavyweight things like Qt, which take way more time to build than Canonical's armhf enablement conditions require. This means we can't make OS images for ARM, but you can still install the apps on an existing Ubuntu installation. You'll miss out on the leaner and faster core, which is a pity (and doubly so on a resource-constrained system), but at least there's a chance of finding an OS image that works for your ARM hardware in case of Ubuntu and almost no chance for any other distro. Enthusiasts can still build ARM images by themselves if they have the hardware to run the build process or if they know their way around QEMU chroots (along the lines of https://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatChroot and https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation but for Ubuntu). They'd have to use something like apt-build to update to later versions of our patched packages, but such updates will probably be rare and all in all it should work. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary
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