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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Tom Potts wrote: > As a follow. > Novell has said they wont be trying to fite Suse onto Arm netbooks. Well you can always put Debian on.. Actually, much as I dislike MS, I think that porting Windows to the ARM would have several added benefits for everyone - firstly it will raise the ARMs profile as a good general purpose CPU - and more importantly get it out of the embeded device arena into the mainstream one - which will mean more motherboards with an ARM chipset rather than Intel or AMD. Imagine a device the size of an AAO with an ARM in it - battery life could by 10 hours, (display backlight permitting!) and in the data cetnre where 90% of all applications do not need FPU, or the other fast instructions, all thy're doing is shoveling data from network to disk and back again - Get an ARM device in there and reduce overall energy consumption by huge amounts.. >> before long OLPC will end up as one laptop per class, due to the huge >> cost of windows and related software licensing, not to mention anti >> virus etc. >> >> Why not stick to Linux it works. My thoughts are that people are trying to provide something that's too radical - So my wife has an AAO running Debian + XFCE and since I rebuilt her desktop with XP, I loaded up the same software on it - Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird and her comment the other night was to the effect of liking having both PCs look the same - eve nthough one is XP, the other xfce4.... We need a distro that's nicely tuned to the platform, but for that, we need the makers to actually employ someone to produce that distro tuned and installed on the platform - or a "recovery" disk that will just do a block-copy of an install. It took me a day to get Debian on my wifes AAO, but only a few hours to replicate the proces son my own AAO... It still needed "geek typing" to finalise it, but if I had another few days, I could produce a USB key with an installer to plug in and go... But that's just for one laptop model... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html