Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops 119
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Charbax writes "In this video, Jerone Young, lead partner engineer at Canonical, explains some of the challenges facing Canonical and other companies who are part of the new Linaro project, in preparation for the now imminent release of a whole bunch of ARM Cortex A9 Powered laptops and desktops likely to be manufactured by giants of the industry such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Toshiba, as well as lesser names such as Quanta, Invetec, Pegatron, and Compal, all of whom have been showing tens of early prototype designs of these ARM-powered laptops at trade shows around the world during the past year and a half. They're working to standardize the boot process, write drivers to use graphics and video hardware acceleration, optimize the web browser (Chrome and Mozilla), and implement faster DDR3 RAM and faster I/O bus speeds, as well as to optimize the software to use the new faster dual core ARM Cortex A9 processors."
Re:Slashdotted, or ??? (Score:4, Funny)
Here we go again. I'm getting an "Internal Server Error", but who knows exactly why the page is down.
Because it's hosted on an ARM Cortex A9 Powered laptop. doh!
Re:ARM vs Geode (Score:2, Funny)
But to make things clear, x86 is a bad architecture
Isn't it odd how the Mac platform jumps from CPU to CPU and somehow ended up on x86. If we could get the PC to jump just once, we'd be so much better off (and the Mac would be kinda screwed).