On 7 March 2012 11:28, paul sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/03/12 10:36, Nigel Verity wrote: > > Hi > > It's been interesting to read about Canonical's ideas for the future of > Ubuntu; in particular its use as an OS for tablets and other mobile devices. > It strikes me that some of this vision is undermined by the implications of > the "Secure Boot" functionality being specified by Microsoft on ARM > processors as a pre-requisite to achieve "Windows 8 Compatible" status. > > A lot of the up-coming tablets are going to be using ARM chips, so unless > the Microsoft requirement is modified, or manufacturers choose to ignore it, > the Canonical vision seems to be flawed. Or am I missing something? > > Regards > > Nige > > > > Well there is the raspberry PI, which is an arm based system, I wonder if > canonical can work with broadcom / rasp PI foundation and come up with > something that way, as in build a specific tablet device for this, In fact > the raspberry Pi (type motherboard) + suitable case + screen should do the > trick, let MS do their secure boot thing, we don't need it, we certainly > don't need the restrictions this will come with, oh specific hardware, > fully closed linux can't run, its not just the secure boot we need to > contend with. Offer a REAL alternative, that is designed FOR ubuntu / > LInux and we should be far better off.
Have you actually *looked* at the Rpi at all? It's a *very* low-spec £25 computer. 256MB of non-expandable RAM, no local storage or storage interface, just an SD card, a very low-powered low-end ARM core, and a proprietary GPU with proprietary drivers, even a proprietary bootloader. It /does/ run Ubuntu - v9.04. Ubuntu 10.04 dropped support for the Rpi's series of ARM cores. It is roughly equivalent to an 11 or 12 year old PC: a Pentium II 300MHz with a quarter of a gig of RAM. It is not a suitable system for running Ubuntu on, unless you want to give people a very bad impression. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
