Re: [marketing] EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port

2011-02-19 Thread Ian Lynch 
On 19 February 2011 07:41, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote:

 Hi,

 For your information :
 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=117017

 Linux ARM is extremely promising for the future, and imho it worth to
 improve it asap.


Why is MS porting Windows to ARM? - There is at least a significant chance
that as mobile technologies move up into the desktop and laptop space, ARM
designs will largely displace x86 as the standard for general purpose
computing. ARM is licensed to multiple manufacturers and is significantly
more efficient in terms of energy needed per software transaction. ARM core
designs integrate well with other chip designs eg Nvidia graphics etc. and
are low cost to manufacture. Multiple ARM cores will fit on small bits of
silicon. The ARM designers had very little money so they built something
simple and efficient. This gives it competitive advantage over x86
particularly but not only in mobile markets. Unless Intel license Atom
designs to other manufacturers and improve those designs quite a lot, they
are not going to compete in this market in the longer term. Interesting
times ahead.

Thanks,
 Eric Bachard

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Re: [marketing] EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port

2011-02-19 Thread Peter Junge 
Hi Eric,

On 02/19/2011 03:41 PM, eric b wrote:
 Hi,
 
 For your information :
 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=117017
 
 Linux ARM is extremely promising for the future, and imho it worth to
 improve it asap.

Thanks a lot. It's great to see EducOOo as a contributer to the ARM port.

One general note about the discussion that had emerged in the following.
Interpreting Eric's subject line can range from a single line of code to
the whole ARM port, if interpretation comes deliberately without
considering the context. Please, a majority of contributers on this list
are not native speakers of English, which always poses the risk of
ambiguity. This happens to almost everyone now and again. I'm happy to
see, that the issue has been resolved in a calm discussion on IRC.

Best regards,
Peter

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[marketing] EducOOo donated code for ARM Linux port

2011-02-18 Thread eric b 

Hi,

For your information : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi? 
id=117017


Linux ARM is extremely promising for the future, and imho it worth to  
improve it asap.



Thanks,
Eric Bachard

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Education Project: http://education.openoffice.org
Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org
Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news