But will the future mobile Linux device landscape deal with more open-source drivers, particularly when it comes to graphics? Just in the past few days, Google bought Motorola, Qualcomm open-sourced the remainder of their Gobi API for controlling modems, and HP ended off all their webOS devices, among other changes. The mobile device landscape, particularly for those devices running Linux, is quickly evolving. An Open-Source Mobile Linux Graphics Stack?.He noted that on the kernel side, Linux has tried to support alot of ARM. In Torvalds’ view, ARM is a ‘hodgepodge’ of companies making random pieces of hardware. “The problem is that ARM doesn’t have a standard platform.” “I think that ARM is very promising,” Torvalds said. Coincidentally this week, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu Linux, announced ARM support as part of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 release. Speaking at the LinuxCon conference this week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds detailed his frustrations with ARM. It’s also an architecture that has had some issues when it comes to Linux. The ARM chip architecture is emerging to become an extremely popular one for embedded and mobile devices. Why are we still waiting for affordable laptops / netbooks / tablets for schools?.For example, I was told shamelessly straight to my face when buying a netbook that the company does not make a lot of money from the sale of a laptop and that I should purchase something else on top. These large computer stores want to extract as much money as possible from customers and are willing to go the distance in confusing students and their parents in order to make that extra profit. I have worked in several large computer stores that have back to school specials for students and let me tell you that its all about revenue and scamming the customers. There are only a few more weeks left before students go back to school and technology companies are gearing up for one of the most busiest seasons of the year.Įven though having a laptop is not mandatory for college or university studies, students often justify the purchase by saying that they need it desperately for school. Students! Don’t get scammed for back to school computer shopping.However, you’re more than welcome to chime in. Its not my intent to start a distrubution war, and I have not personally sat down with every single one to make a educated assessment. I will mention a few distributions mainly for the super low ram machines. While this won’t be a “how to” for all old PCs in the world I hope to at least send you in the right direction. I am going to break this quick tutorial down into sections based on installed RAM. Now it is time to move on to bigger and beefier machines like 486′s, Pentiums and better.
#ICECAT ARCH LINUX INSTALL#
In part one I showed you that you could install a linux distro on a new computer and transplant it into a 386 computer in a short amount of time and with little effort. Crossword Puzzle of Some Linux Distros….
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