[Arm-netbook] Mailing list - (Was: CT-PC89E's file listing)

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:00:17PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:37:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> > > fine with me, but is this a really a debian project?
> > 
> > The teams.d.net lists were set up as a semi-official service for Debian 
> > related mailing lists that don't warrant a mailing list on lists.d.org. It 
> > is (was?) run by DDs at a location that also hosts other Debian services.
> > 
> > I've sent a mail to d-project to enquire about its status.
> > 
> > Another alternative would be to request an alioth project (which does allow 
> > separate subscription to projects and their mailing lists).
> 
> I am going to start to talk about putting centos on these things ... are they going
> to be happy with that ?
> 
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Unless you're prepared for extreme pain - don't even think about it :(

CentOS don't have an ARM port because Red Hat don't. Fedora has a very 
unofficial ARM port - though this may buck up slightly if Fedora forms 
the basis for the new MeeGo from Nokia and Intel.

Fedora has almost no experienced ARM developers: the Ubuntu ARM 
developers are (primarily) relying on Debian expertise to build packages 
that run on ARM and then repackaging slightly. Nokia had (past tense 
now) Maemo as an ARM-based in-house fork of Debian.

The only game in town if you want any packages is Debian based. Building 
Fedora packages on CentOS / Red Hat is an ugly hack in the extreme. 
Attempting to port CentOS (for Red Hat compatibility) building on a 
Fedora foundation is uglier still.

I'll hazard a guess that mid-fun's distro is Debian based - if only 
because the uid's start at 1000 in Debian and at 500 in Red Hat if I 
recall correctly.

Just my 0.02c HK

All the best,

AndyC