[Arm-netbook] Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Linux now running on EOMA68-A20

[joem]

On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 01:28 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:07 PM, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> > Ubuntu 13.04 now running on EOMA68-A20
> >
> > Sata disk images and how to's here:
> > http://www.gplsquared.com/eoma_boot/eoma_boot.html#Ubuntu_13_04
> >
> > (The same image can work on Cubieboard2 as well with some minor tweeks.)
> >
> > The EOMA now functions like a powerful arm-netbook desktop computer
> > and as powerful as any netbooks that first came out.
> 
>  ahh fantastic.
> 
> > Probably under $50 BOM costs for a netbook like ARM PC box with say
> > an upgradeable 16GB sata SSD built into the box.
> 
>  *have* to make that happen.  this was the whole damn reason why this
> list was created in the first place, 3 and a half years ago.
>     http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2010-February/thread.html
> 
>  with the flying squirrel PCB nearly there, adaptation to turn it into
> a laptop is really not that hard.  the alternative is the USB-based
> solution (like the atrix lapdock that christopher's taking apart at
> the moment).

I ordered up more ssds and other bits of kit to see what else can be
made into reality. Just need one LCD to work now, and then i get go
ahead probably for half dozen to try out and get working.