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Originally Posted by Skry View Post
btw guys, since you've the one using this, what do you think?

- Should we default to 2.6.37 kernel? This way we would have working hardware at least. 3.x kernels could be offered as packages to install separately.
+1. Practical usefulness above everything else

Originally Posted by Skry View Post
- There are many things in both Arch and Arch Linux ARM nowadays that I don't like. One of them is the fact that NEON optimizations are not used anywhere. How about if we take Arch base, rebuild it with optimized settings, and define some baseline which we would maintain together and offer as separate repository, also compiled with optimized settings. In addition to that, we could use Alarm repos but keep it lower on priority. This would pretty much make this an Arch Linux spin. This would make everything easier to maintain, in theory at least, we could do something like monthly rebasing to Arch base with our own repositories, so everything wont blow up when something is updated on official repos. Security updates would be priorized separately ofc.

- Relating to the above, I was thinking about something that focuses on Wayland and Enlightenment. Also, everything neon/thumb compiled for cortex-a8, and EGL/GLES support enabled where available.
+1, sounds natural.

Originally Posted by Skry View Post
- Hey, we would have our own distro to toy and learn with, that could actually be something quite unique, wouldn't that be interesting?
Definitely!

Originally Posted by Skry View Post
- Your ideas how to continue/proceed, or any thoughts, please?
This is only reason why I decided to post, despite having so low amount of things to say

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