> like to replace my Intel Atom personal webserver > with something built around this new ARM processor. Unfortunately I > don't think Open Solaris has been ported to ARM meaning I would have > to used Linux if I did this.
I have some ARM-based Linux machines. I think you may want to reconsider the "move to ARM" unless you find a specific distro that you like which has excellent support for ARM -- or more ideally, one that is built from the ground up for ARM use. Eventually you will want to update some packages or install some new software and you may find that is much more challenging than you had originally anticipated. There are a great many popular packages that simply are not built/maintained with the ARM platform in mind, and as such you get into the fun business of supporting many things yourself and maybe donating back some code changes if you are so inclined. After a short period of time, most people will tire of this and go back to x86 + Ubuntu with readily available precompiled packages of software they want to use. One particularly old ARM system (Netwinder) that I have is so constrained that you simply cannot build packages for it on the device. For all intents, it is an embedded device (webserver++). And so you get into the really fun business of cross-compiling and toolchains etc on your other Linux system, ugh. I don't know about you, but I have far better things to do with my free time, and perhaps the situation would change if a serious ARM-based desktop was released with modern specs and performance. But I wouldn't buy the first one out until you were sure there was a substantial community building around it that will help you support the platform you've bought into. Wayne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
