hi, Am Freitag, den 27.02.2009, 08:01 +0400 schrieb Graham Innes: > I saw this clip yesterday: > http://osnews.com/story/21031/ARM_Shows_Prototype_Netbooks > (espeicially the segment starting at 2:50) and thought these cheap, > light, low-power ARM-based devices would make fantastic thin clients. > If they can make a full netbook for $200, they must be able to make a > thin client without LCD and storage for less than $100... > > I know Debian already supports ARM and Canonical is making an official > Ubuntu port for the netbook market. Are there plans to support ARM as > an LTSP client architecture in the future, at least for the distros > that support it officially? i'm working on the ubuntu arm port, currently the basic hardware port is hogging all of my time, but i would love to (being teh former ubuntu LTSP maintainer) have a look in enabling arm in ubuntu 9.10 where my workload should drop a bit again ... i was hoping to get support going for teh beagleboard this round already, but the big variations of possible network card configs (you only can attach USB cards) makes not straightforward. under [1] there is a script to roll ARM roofses on a ubuntu machine, based on that someone can implement an environment to run ltsp-build-client in to produce an nbd image, patches or scripts would indeed be greatly welcome ;)
ciao
oli
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch
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