[Arm-netbook] RedSleeve - New ARM Linux Distro

[Alejandro Mery]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:11, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:18:01 +0100, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>> cnxsoft wrote:
> ...
>> It is also not even clear that 12.04 is hard-float - both list kernels
>> as armv7l, rather than armv7hl.
>
> perhaps I've not been paying attention closely enough, but it seems like
> an odd choice to me to use Ubuntu in preference to Debian for this sort
> of thing --- is my perception that Ubuntu has a much narrower focus (and
> hence less interest in portability) wrong?

Ubuntu narrows it focus to 3 architectures: x86, x86_64 _and_ ARMv7
;-) the ARM part is done by Linaro, heavily sponsored by Canonical.