[Arm-netbook] GK802 for $70

luke.leighton luke.leighton at gmail.com
Fri May 24 05:57:58 BST 2013


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then you'll be doing a "dance" with a new device. Actually, for ~30
> years of ARM embedded device mainstreamicity, thousands and thousands
> of people contaminated internets with "easy to install images" for
> "one" device. First problem is that noone knows what's inside. Well,
> actually by now everyone knows what's inside - dirty hacked-up
> unmaintained crap, also likely viruses and trojans which steal your
> money and record your home porn.

 actually, paul's got a very good point.  the debian archive keyring,
key-signing arrrangements absolutely guarantee that you will not get
any crap - at all - on such a system.

> Btw, is that only me who thinks that dpkg is bad choice of a package
> manager for embedded system?

 yes!!! you want to go back to dll hell feel free! :)



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