On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > Android is not in the picture. You can run plain old standard Fedora > GNU/Linux, complete with its thousands of packages, on an ARM computer. > Same with Ubuntu and several other distros.
And, in fact, ARM-based Linux distributions date to the Netwinder in 1999 or so: http://www.netwinder.org/arm_info.html Jim Gettys et al also did some of the pioneering work on ARM Linux at Digital/Compaq Research Labs in the Itsy/Skiff/iPAQ days. (The second in that list is why my personal laptop is still named 'skiffserv'.) Linux has been running well on ARM for a long long time. Robust Python for ARM dates at least to 2001 or so (http://www.vanille-media.de/site/index.php/projects/python-for-arm-linux/). --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
