RE: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-29 Thread Kushal Koolwal
Jul 2008 12:11:31 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Intel Atom Processor On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Kushal Koolwal wrote: The Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) effort is one to provide a good desktop experience on subnotebooks / UMPCs by using a different desktop

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:35:46 -0700 Kushal Koolwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For now should we just keep track of the EeePC? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Status I can't answer the big picture questions you're asking. As for the Eee stuff, expect on d-d-a a new Bits from the Debian Eee PC

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-27 Thread Loïc Minier
://www.ubuntu.com/news/netbook-remix Ubuntu Netbook Remix leverages Moblin technologies optimized for the Intel Atom processor. Intel and Canonical are working to create a next generation computing experience across a new category of affordable Internet-centric, portable devices; including Mobile

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:29:48 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: many thanks for your reply. Your web sites are indeed what I wanted to see, possibly a bit too far away from John Doe who just bought such a machine as a Newbie Linux user, Naturally. The site is made by and for those

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-25 Thread Steffen Moeller
Dear Ben and dear Jose, Ben Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:09:57 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The EeePCs are sold throughout large resellers (Saturn, Staples, ...) in Germany and at least until the new ones get out they all ship with Debian - perfectly visible

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-24 Thread Steffen Moeller
Kushal Koolwal wrote: I got your point, you mean we(group of debian) should make a blueprint for some Device like Netbook / UMPC / MIDs. Yes. Exactly! what is your blueprint based debian like? At this point of time I am not sure what is going to look like. May be it will help me if you

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-24 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Moeller wrote: Kushal Koolwal wrote: I got your point, you mean we(group of debian) should make a blueprint for some Device like Netbook / UMPC / MIDs. Yes. Exactly! what is your blueprint based debian like? At this point of time I am

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:09:57 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The EeePCs are sold throughout large resellers (Saturn, Staples, ...) in Germany and at least until the new ones get out they all ship with Debian - perfectly visible to every potential customer passing by. I have not

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/07/08 at 17:58 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Yeah, great idea! Let's start Debian subdistros for every specific use one can think of. This whole universal operating system idea is so old. What about gebian, kebian, xebian? Would it be wrong

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-23 Thread Joey Hess
Loïc Minier wrote: Would it be wrong to ship different flavors of the Debian CDs based on various upstream software? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r3-i386-kde-CD-1.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r3-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso --

RE: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Kushal Koolwal
was wondering if Debian community is planning to have something like this. Thank you once again for your time. Kushal Koolwal I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:06:47 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intel Atom Processor On Mon, Jul 21

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Kushal Koolwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, Ubuntu started the netbook-remix program to port applications for Intel Atom processors based on the Intel's moblin project (http://www.moblin.org/). https://edge.launchpad.net/netbook-remix None of the

RE: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Kushal Koolwal
have. Thanks for effort and initiative. Kushal Koolwal I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:30:37 +0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intel Atom Processor Hmm. I got your point, you mean we(group of debian

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 22/07/08 at 01:23 -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: maybe we can start a project named mobian (mobile debian) ? Yes this would be awesome. This will bring Debian up to the speed of likes of Ubuntu. I would be happy to assist in this with whatever knowledge and skills I have. Yeah, great idea!

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Kushal Koolwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And therefore I was thinking if Debian Project is planning to natively support these? I noticed this page being created on the wiki recently: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:03:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: I might be wrong but I thought the atom CPU would add 64bit support. As such the Debian amd64 port should work as well. According to Wikipedia and the linked Intel sheets, only the desktop version has 64-bit support. Gabor

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Kushal Koolwal wrote: The atom seem to be x86-compatible. so what is the issue that would stop it from any i386-based Debian package? That's true. But it seems that these processors are low power and are made for Ultra mobile PC (UMPC) and netbooks and to take advantage

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Yeah, great idea! Let's start Debian subdistros for every specific use one can think of. This whole universal operating system idea is so old. What about gebian, kebian, xebian? Would it be wrong to ship different flavors of the Debian CDs based on

RE: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-22 Thread Kushal Koolwal
leverages Moblin technologies optimized for the Intel Atom processor. Intel and Canonical are working to create a next generation computing experience across a new category of affordable Internet-centric, portable devices; including Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops and embedded

Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-21 Thread Kushal Koolwal
Hello, First of all I apologize if this question is not appropriate for this mailing list. I scanned the entire Debian Mailing Lists and I thought this might be the most appropriate. If it is not then please direct me to the correct one. Now the question: I was wondering if there is any

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2008-07-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Kushal Koolwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And therefore I was thinking if Debian Project is planning to natively support these? I noticed this page being created on the wiki recently: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne Looks like at least one person plans to