On Wednesday 16 April 2008 21:44:12 Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > | This discussion starts to go around in circles :/ > | > | On Wednesday 16 April 2008 21:15:00 Andy Green wrote: > |> WHY is what we are doing so DIFFERENT from what normal desktop distros > |> set out to provide that we need "a powerful build system > | > | Try to run a stock distro on your Neo. Then come back and lets talk. > > That's the wrong way around. Fedora for example is starting to have > cross builds for ARM. We can follow their progress and assess if we > could work together. > > Intel made an offer to provide a port for Openmoko of Moblin / Ubuntu > mobile AIUI. With their resources we can believe it will work out, we > would have input into how we want it to work out. > > So there are ways forward from where we are today and we are not locked > in past the short term, we should seriously consider what it will cost > us in delay and staffing the "re-education camps" and what it can gain > us in a larger developerbase that is ready to hit the ground running.
Good good. I think it's incredibly wrong to spread out resources for that, especially at this time where we have so many other things to do software-wise, but of course I wish you great success in that undertaking. :M:
