Mageia ARM port

[ennael]

Hi there

Mageia is about to support some ARM platforms
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/06/23/arm-port-preview/

If you are interested in do not hesitate to ping here or in mailing-lists.

Cheers

[djennings]

My new Raspberry Pi will arrive soon. It will be interesting to try out Mageia on it
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

[waferhead]

WOOT!

Don't make me have to use Ubuntu, please, I'm already hair challenged!

Great idea/wrong distro...
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

Just get it running in chroot and work from there!

[wilcal]

My new Raspberry Pi will arrive soon. It will be interesting to try out Mageia on it
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

I also have a Raspberry on order. Basic question:
Will the Mageia ARM port run on Raspberry?
Puppy Linux already has a pre-Alpha .img

[doktor5000]

Already asked in https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-d ... 16852.html and more recently by me in https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/mageia-d ... 16975.html
Sadly no feedback or answers so far :/

[wilcal]

Sadly no feedback or answers so far :/

Thanks

IMO Raspberry Pi is gonna pick up so much
momentum that it's gonna become the default
ARM platform for Linux Distros.

[scubajim]

The problem here is that the RasPi only has 256M of RAM. So running KDE and all the frills is pretty much out of the question. Having said which, LXDE is part of Mageia and that seems to run OK on a RasPi so my guess is that we can have that working.

Just make sure that you compile it for he specific ARM in the RasPi (a v6). If you do a debian and compile for v5 you'll miss out on the hardware floating point and if you do an ubuntu and compile for v7 it'll just not work.

Also you'll need all the kernel patches that have been kicking about....

Having said which I'd *very* much like to see this.

[wilcal]

The problem here is that the RasPi only has 256M of RAM. So running KDE and all the frills is pretty much out of the question. Having said which, LXDE is part of Mageia and that seems to run OK on a RasPi so my guess is that we can have that working

No question in my mind that for now KDE & Gnome are out on RasPi platform.
I'd guess that RasPi 2 will have 512 or 1024 so that'll give it a little more
room to breathe. One review ( Podcast ) I listend to also stated
only one app running at a time. And I don't have a problem with
that either. My terminal will be my HDTV.