Hi everyone,
Someone has asked me if i want to Buntify a Asus X205TA.
I sure want to do that, but ...
I'm a bit reluctant to try this since there doesn't seem to be any
official release availabe for this type of hardware
(Atom Z3735F) Is Linuxium.com.au the only *buntu that supports this
hardware, or is there also an official ubuntu available? I have send
the duck out for answers but the duck mainly brings me to Linuxium and
Ubuntu forum posts that either show the DIY method or also point to
Linuxium.
Lubuntu seems to me the most obvious distro to run on that hardware
since it is in the "lower performance" segment.
Still very capable hardware but also very portable hardware. The most
cost effective portable hardware on the market today is based on Atom
Z3735 chips. So that in itself seems to make a lot of sense to have a
distro available to replace Windows.
Just for people who don't want to use windows.
The main hurdle seems to be the 32bit UEFI. Most old BIOS based hardware
can't boot El torito images with UEFI.
That would then need a complete new .iso release for that platform
alone.
Is this mainly a matter of having the resources to build such image or
is the 32bit UEFI still not good enough to provide official support?
At this point I want to tell that person to just buy a $99 Core2Duo
based laptop that weighs 3 times as much unless i can find a official
distro. I don't mind to DIY on hardware that i own, but my recent
Macbook experience learned me that it is a headache to DIY on hardware
that is owned by someone else. This why i like to know if some official
distro exists for Z3725 based boxes.
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