James D Bearden escreveu: > Hello Folks, > > I perused the mail list archives looking for an answer to a question, > and I see a fair number of people asking basically the same thing (two > unanswered questions on roughly the same topic in November alone) but no > answers. Can somebody please answer the following for inquiring minds: > > Can we please have an official "Generic i386" platform? My personal need > is a bunch of old laptops and tablets laying around the house that I > would love to breath some new life into. I know that UMPC machines are > the focus and generic i386 machines are not the focus of Ubuntu UME, but > there is no other comparable solution for older hardware. I would love > to have, and would offer to host, a Ubuntu UME ISO image for a generic > i386 platform if somebody would cough one up for me occasionally. > > Failing that can somebody mention in a FAQ or wiki why that would be > such a horrible idea and why it is not going to happen so people will > stop asking questions like this? I understand the machine would be > sluggish, maybe even unusuable. But can somebody at least try it once? >
Hi James. It's not an "such a horrible idea" at all but the same reason that this won't happen soon, at least as an "official" effort, as you said, is the same reason why we will not have a "PDA version" or a "cellphone version" (to quote some of the requests I've heard): we don't have currently the resources for that. Canonical sponsors the development of this project but we have to keep the focus to what this project was created for: UMPC-type machines as you noticed. It doesn't mean that we will not have it something as you want, we can't just make any promises right now. Now that I told you why not, let me tell you how :) : the UME is quite generic in the sense that it runs in a common x86 platform so, if you cook-up a suitable kernel, you won't have much problems running the other elements. Some compilation parameters will have to be changed or you will have to force-install the packages to have the correct interface but that's basically all you'll have to do. Why don't you give it a shot or start a project yourself? It's fun and you will be not only filling your own need but also contribute something back to the community pool. []s Adilson. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
