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

[luke.leighton]

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).

 l.