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Fedora 8 now available for Nokia tablets!
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gsagers
2008-01-21 , 14:42
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Very nice to see. I personally think we'll see a lot more armel distros and devices in the fairly near future. The chip has low power consumption, with reasonable horsepower, making it well-suited to embedded devices. Sharp (w/ Zaurus) and Nokia have demonstrated that Arm/Linux make a viable platform, and we'll see other entrants as time goes by. The big problems, I suspect, will be the same as between Zaurus & N-series, binary and library incompatibility. There will be several dozen devices, and several dozen builds of gpe-contacts, each specific to one device.
It's really nice to see that fedora's available, hopefully some can figure out touchscreen, how to make it a real rootfs, etc. I realize these are non-trivial, but perhaps possible.
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