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junioru 2007-07-30 15:12

ubuntu on 770
 
Stupid question. Can you boot from mmc1 an ubuntu or another version of linux?

Modulok 2007-07-30 15:23

Re: ubuntu on 770
 
If we habe luck then Ubuntu Mobile, which is not yet out.
There was another distro I dont renember at the moment.

aflegg 2007-07-30 16:54

Re: ubuntu on 770
 
Ubuntu Mobile Edition, when it's released, will need to be cross-compiled for ARM and then merged with the Nokia-specific bits of Maemo.

Ubuntu themselves are only planning on supporting x86 devices:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded

Texrat 2007-07-30 16:56

Re: ubuntu on 770
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by aflegg (Post 64138)
Ubuntu themselves are only planning on supporting x86 devices

Boy, talk about missing the boat! Highly ironic, too.

screener 2007-07-30 20:21

Re: ubuntu on 770
 
Quote:

Ubuntu themselves are only planning on supporting x86 devices:
i'm sorry ?? . . . but can you tell me what kind of mobile or PDA is an x86 ??

coz i would not need ubuntu mobile at that time . . . i would run DSL or Puppy Linux or win 98 lite

i'm sorry but i would not know much . . . i'm a noob . . . but i try really hard.

aflegg 2007-07-30 21:28

Re: ubuntu on 770
 
The Intel MID devices, the Asus Eee PC, the Via Nanobook, the UMPCs - all of these are devices ideal for Ubuntu Mobile Edition.

Hedgecore 2007-08-01 18:08

Re: ubuntu on 770
 
There is a version of Slackware Linux, ARMed Slack, that is (obviously) compiled for ARM. There's so much proprietary hardware in the 770 that unless someone really gets to work on it, it won't be on your 770's screen any time soon. I started out with Slackware in 1995 or 1996 (I don't remember anymore). Let's just say there was a chance my monitor could've caught fire (very rare though) when I was probing it for appropriate scan rates. The good old days.

Anyway, there's really no option yet. Hopefully soon, I laid my 770 down for the past 6 months but have come back to it as a media device as opposed to an online one. It's been given new life with the addition of the Canola media suite.


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