On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:16:05PM +0100, Dirk Müller wrote:
>Hi cross-distro readers,
>
>the openSUSE on ARM team was quite busy the last few weeks with
>getting openSUSE 12.3 for AArch64 ready. At the time of this post, we
>have finished around 4000-4100 packages (out of ~ 6000) of the current
>state of the openSUSE 12.3 project for AArch64. With those
>successfully built packages, we’re also able to build a regular
>openSUSE image for you to try and run in the ARMv8 System emulator
>(ARMv8 Foundation Model).
>
>This is a huge achievement and milestone for us, thanks to lots of
>helpful hands in openSUSE. Just to put this into context: This is not
>a minimal system with a couple of toolchain packages. It is also not
>an embedded variant of a Linux environment. No, this is the full
>featured, standard openSUSE distribution as you’re used to, ported to
>AArch64, up and running. We have built it based on (slightly newer
>versions of) standard openSUSE 12.3 packages, and the changes are
>mostly already merged back into openSUSE Factory. For all we know it’s
>also more successful package builds than any other Linux distribution
>has on AArch64! If you’d like to see the status yourself, please check
>out the OBS repository we created for this [1].

Awesome work, guys! :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Steve McIntyre                                [email protected]
<http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs


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