Peter Robinson wrote: >> Indeed, I'm aware of all that. The main downside of putting Fedora on it >> is that a number of pretty important things are still missing (Adobe >> Flash, Google Chrome, Open/Libre Office - at least the latter two are >> available for ARM Ubuntu). > > Chromium would be possible (at least technically, whether it compiles > or not is another matter), more likely for F-14 or later but won't be > in the official Fedora, but then this is no different for x86 Fedora.
No, but the point remains that there is an Ubuntu Chromium package and there isn't a Fedora one (nor is there a spec file to build it). The memory footprint of Firefox makes it unsuitable for machines with only 448-512MB of RAM, such as most ARM machines. Not to mention that the FF in F13 doesn't actually work properly on ARM, even with alignment fixups: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636751 > OpenOffice/LibreOffice is likely similar, except its already in Fedora > mainline so it should just be a matter of compiling it. Having spent many a day trying to get the src.rpm to build, I can assure it is _not_ a simple matter of "rpmbuild --rebuild libreoffice.src.rpm". The build process as guided by the patches and spec file makes some unsound assumptions, including those about Java's availability and state of functioning. I gave up after a while since the build process took about 3 days to get to the point where it fails on my SheevaPlug. I might give it another go if/when I have the time to get distcc and/or koji working across multiple machines (SheevaPlug, AC100, Efika Smartbook) - cutting the build time down to a quarter might just make it workable for some kind of a meaningful development effort. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
