Thread: Arch Linux ARM on N900
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2013-03-25 , 21:34
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Originally Posted by jd4200 View Post
I'm quite interested in trying this, especially seeing as you, Skry, and many others have put in a lot of effort, thanks a lot, since the last time I looked at this project a long time back.
Yeah, I've spent countless nights with this one, you're welcome. Hopefully you decide to give it a go.

Originally Posted by jd4200 View Post
What is the difference between the official rootfs, and the one provided by Skry? Is the unofficial just fine tuned towards the N900?
Mine has kernel for N900 and my integration packages included. I also included dialog to make use of the wifi-menu, so one can just simply extract it and boot. No need to play around in chroot unless one wants to.

Originally Posted by jd4200 View Post
Once setup, am I free to 'pacman -Syu' once in a while, or are there any packages I must hold off from updating (the kernel especially)?
You're perfectly free to -Syu all you like, no need to hold anything back. Also, everything is optional and split, so you can pick what you want, grab everything or simply do things your way.

Repositories are also split, currently to base which includes only the few essential packages, and to extra where majority of the integration, special tools and modified packages are. There is going to be two more, testing and neon. So, there is no forced dependencies to anything, and no right or wrong way to setup your system, the choice is all yours.

Originally Posted by jd4200 View Post
I've got a lot of free hosting space & bandwidth on my dedi., & free domains if you fancy centralising this and moving away from dropbox/other file hosters.
I certainly do fancy doing just that. I've put a lot of personal time into this but unfortunately money is something I can't invest. PM me or query me at IRC and we can discuss this further.


Originally Posted by AhmadMhd View Post
Thank you very much @Skry
Now there is one more Arch user on N900 :-]

I'll try to contribute to this project
keep up the greate work.
Great! Welcome
 

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