[Bulk] Re: New generation netbooks with *ubuntu?

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> John Hubbard wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>>> Arm is already supported by Debian, I believe, so it's really a matter
>>>> of testing.
>>>>     
>>> Ubuntu's standards for a official architecture are significantly more
>>> demanding then Debian's.  That's why for instance PowerPC is no longer
>>> supported in Ubuntu.
>>>   
>> Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't the issue with PowerPC that there
>> were not a sufficient number of users who were willing to be involved in
>> development and testing of new releases on PPC system.
> 
> For some value of sufficient.

Enough to test to Ubuntu's standards, of course.
> 
>> If there is a hardware manufacture selling Arm boxes, I would bet that
>> they would like to be involved in testing the new releases and thus the
>> problem is solved.
> 
> There are hardware manufacturers selling Power boxes too (including a
> rather large one based in Minato).  But that obviously wasn't enough.
> It remains to see how serious Freescale is about ARM.

Yes, it does, but if there _isn't_ someone like Freescale, then Ubuntu on
ARM will remain experimental.
-- 
derek