On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 05:05:30PM +0000, James wrote: > > Alan, one of the keenest reasons ARM is dominating > NOW, is that in the early 1990 one person, helped > many fledling embedded linux hacks get embedded > linux running on many different flavors of ARM > processors. > > RUSSELL is KING, and imho is the predominant > reason today, a decade later, that ARM dominates > the embedded space. Just look at the vintage > embedded linux ports to hundreds of boards that > mostly impoverished little companies built > and ONE MAN stood in the gap for them all to > realize their dreams: > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/ > > Intel and the rest wanted everyone to purchase expensive > dev board, licensed embedded RTOSes, and binaries > for most add on hardware. A prospect that precluded > the little companies from fair competition. > > RUSSELL KING should be wealthy and on the Board > of directors for ARM ltd. for his unselfish > and heroic efforts! More than anyone else, he > made arm-linux a doable for thousands of companies > back when the embedded world did not think much > of linux nor embedded linux. (I know I hacked on a > few of those old projects).... > > Intel has nothing but a bunch of blood sucking > lawyers and assholes that think they are better > than the rest of us; and they shall fall! > > >From the Bible: "You reap what you sow"... > My most sincerest hope is that we take the embedded > gentoo efforts from the the embedded gentoo handbook, > and integrate them into the regular Gentoo handbook. > The distro that does this will be king of the distros! > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/ > > peace, > James
ack for Russell King Wish my Samsung Galaxy S could have it's piece of crap Android system replaced by arm-linux -- if not it will drive me back to an iPhone. Well, idk James, but his passion is great to read! -- Happy Penguin Computers >') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ [email protected] 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
