Ubuntu for pocket PC?

Ewan Mac Mahon ewan at macmahon.me.uk
Thu May 5 15:37:46 UTC 2005


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:37:49PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 04.05.2005, 16:07 -0500 schrieb Jesse Haubrich:
> > You won't get ubuntu on your PPC, but linux is doable.  The best place
> > to start is handhelds.org 
> just a little patience  might help ;)
> it has already a spec:
> http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/%C2%B5buntu
>
Interesting. That page suggest using either Opie or GPE as guis and
running on ARM hardware (so Zauruses and Ipaqs for the most part). How
is this going to be different from the existing OpenEmbedded[1] based
distros like OpenZaurus[2] and Familiar[3]? And since
BitBake/OpenEmbedded is just distro building infrastructure anyway
wouldn't it make sense to add µbuntu packages to OE and use the existing
work rather than bodging the Debian tools into doing the same job? Or is
it aiming at being more like PocketWorkstation[4], but for Ubuntu rather
than Debian?

Ewan (owns a Zaurus, tinkers with OE, likes Ubuntu; quite interested)

[1] <http://openembedded.org/>
[2] <http://www.openzaurus.org/>
[3] <http://familiar.handhelds.org/>
[4] <http://pocketworkstation.org/>
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