OpenSUSE ARM Final Less Than a Week Away; RC2 Out Now

Andy Prough writes "Jos Poortvliet of the openSUSE team has announced that openSUSE ARM RC2 is available for download and needs testing. The final version is due out on November 6th, and support has been expanded to include the following SoCs: Calxeda Highbank, CuBox, IMX 53, and Samsung Origen. Although Raspberry Pi is not yet supported, the openSUSE team plans to roll out support in the future. User Etam has posted a picture of it working without trouble in chroot on an N900, although Firefox is working "terribly slow" but not crashing."

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[Andy Prough]

I'm having the opposite experience - recent updates to FF are running faster and with less memory usage than Chrome on my laptop. Previously, I had relegated FF to third tier browser for about the past year due to its overall sluggishness, but now its back to being the browser of choice.

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[Andy Prough]

Thus, I abhor Mozilla's decision to try and compete with Chrome in terms of cutting the interface

Only takes a few clicks to put the interface right back to where you like it. I'm beginning to enjoy the Chrome-like interface, after about 6 months of disliking it. As far as interface, FF has a big advantage out of the box with the drop-down-awesome-bar.

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You're only running two X servers if you do the VNC or Xnest thing; you can let clients from the chroot connect to the main X server just fine, if you don't need different window management (e.g. to make the GIMP "usable"), and that's what I did 99% of the time on my N810. Still got two copies of a fuckload of libraries and such eating RAM, of course. (I never messed much with chroots on my N900 -- something about being out of grad school and having a job left me with less time for more-or-less pointless di

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[Anonymous Coward]

about charger when running nativ http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=135188391620044&w=2 [marc.info]

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[Andy Prough]

And quite obviously not being able to charge the battery on a mobile phone makes the whole thing quite useless.

Reminds me of the scene in Book of Eli where he gets his iPod trickle-charged from the crazy old dude in the electronics shop. Would the N900 charge if you turned the phone off after you had installed Gentoo, or still not?

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[Andy Prough]

SUSE is a big company with an army of engineers and a big stable of products. They are some of the biggest contributors to numerous projects, such as KDE, LibreOffice, and make a lot of commits to kernel development. If they really decide to support ARM architecture, they should bring a lot to the table.

Also, the openSUSE implementation of KDE Plasma Netbook environment is a fast desktop with low graphics requirements. Combined with the SUSE GUI config tools (YAST2), you would have a zippy yet robust dist

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[gmuslera]

Killed by Nokia, dismissed as a failure, and ... still is the reference board for a lot of hacking projects, still showing how adaptable is it, still somewhat relevant in some circles. Why no company got a hint of it and tried to push something comparable, maybe more up to date, maybe even more open?

Just now?

[noobermin]

Just now openSUSE has arm support? Gentoo has had support for arm since forever, but I guess few people use it so it doesn't matter...