-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/12 14:51, Alan Bell wrote: > Well nobody has the hardware yet, I could have applied to get a > dev board, but I am not a developer that low down the stack, and > the Ubuntu ARM people I spoke to told me there was no possibility > of Ubuntu building for ARM6 any more.
I'd phrase that as "There's no possibility of Canonical re-enabling building for ARM6 unless someone pays them to do it". There's nothing stopping community people doing an "Ubuntu Pi Remix". > What I did do was talk to Eben and Liz and explain why I didn't > want them shipping it with an unsupported and EOL Ubuntu 9.04 and > causing lots of people to come to the LoCo community looking for > support with an elderly Ubuntu that can't be upgraded. I would > rather people have a good experience on something else than a bad > experience on Ubuntu. Ah! So it's _your_ fault they're bad-mouthing us! :) > I think the ARM6 problem is going to be a bit of a showstopper for > having Ubuntu all the way down on the Raspberry Pi. It will however > run Debian, and it will run python and it will run various Ubuntu > bits of GUI goodness if they are compiled for it. I can see it > being possible to have a Raspberry Pi running Unity2d (sadly I > doubt compiz will work) on Debian plumbing, so it will could look > rather a lot like Ubuntu. > The 'official' Fedora spin was made by a bunch of guys at a University in Canada, not as I understand it Red Hat. Their video explains that they went out and bought a bunch of ARM6 devices (not Pis) and did the builds on the bare metal. This could just as "easily" be done for Ubuntu. Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPV4QYAAoJEMx6UFtfvV4wBe4IAKar1glYe9GHo5fGN/s0hgyT wPjUT9YXeUWlqJ6K3fFMvMp5+xfSbT2USwA2G4CJCQREqq4cJIgNyMR0zFcyJ+gF 96bSmVyOcbeTZBFeR9bZOCoVUI9Bnyj89oYr8A5fvYgGYFe5rqZ7kOSDizxOolQ/ cBivn2cXzvD60b2/zt6R0tDHYxMWVJuGVNdUBU5PmKqPk+FoJnPAUWN8t5QcrJDZ 3JredRD6s+O8Cgtm76MVq6ltGuGiQqhBkKhZfqAX+uFRDnLaqG/7gcij5jNUmXQM oMf9Ak9Zxdo+yqdUuUFPMpNPljmgqwI/XmluLlYDxRQHSnpSU9yhYJsxYkmHYno= =w/QR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
