On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:05:44PM +0100, Andrew Wafaa wrote:

Sorry for the cross posting, but I thought it worth the extra noise ;-)

One of the things that came out of the recent Geeko Love-In for me was a

new project to immerse myself in within openSUSE. Yeah I know, we have

enough existing projects already so why create a new one? Simples!

Believe it or not but openSUSE is behind the curve in a specific

segment, and that segment has yet to explode to its full potential. That

segment is ARM. No I'm not talking about your upper body appendages, but

the architecture that powers most of your little devices (and some

bigger ones too). Almost all smartphones, tablets and many other

consumer devices are powered by ARM from one of the numerous licensees.

Didn't openSUSE do something about this a while ago? Yes we did.

Unfortunately the effort seems to have bitrotted somewhat, there were

numerous reasons and I don't even prophesise to know the all either.

</lurk>

Hi!

If you'd like to join in some cross-distribution discussion about ARM
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by Linaro:

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There's already been a big meetup at LPC earlier on this month, and
we're resolving to do more regular sessions in the future. If there's
anything we can help with, please shout!