Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-10 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 05:54:36PM -0600, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > >On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:17:06PM -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: > >>I'm pretty sure there are Debian ports for ARM including RasberryPi. > > > > > >I am more interested in getting th

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-10 Thread Connie Sieh
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:17:06PM -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: I'm pretty sure there are Debian ports for ARM including RasberryPi. I am more interested in getting the SL userland running on the ARM machines. There is a RHEL 6 rebuild for "

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-10 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:17:06PM -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: > I'm pretty sure there are Debian ports for ARM including RasberryPi. I am more interested in getting the SL userland running on the ARM machines. K.O. > > Here's an interesting project out of the UK > http://www.southampton.ac

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-08 Thread Yasha Karant
There appear to be three substantive issues: 1. The bootloader and booting methodology (something MS wanted to change on X86-64 platforms with the advent of MS Win 8 so that, effectively, MS non-certified environments would not be allowed to boot on platforms that MS certified for MS Win 8 --

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-08 Thread Joseph Areeda
I'm pretty sure there are Debian ports for ARM including RasberryPi. Here's an interesting project out of the UK http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/ where the guy built a 64 node cluster using Lego for the supports. I'm also sure it was a lot of work like others have mentioned. Pe

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-07 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Please do not confuse 3 separate issues: 1) Linux userland: this is pretty much universal and will run on any CPU as long as you have a cross-compiler and as long as the "autoconf" tools do not try too hard to prevent you from cross-compiling the stuff. 2) Linux kernel: is also pretty mu

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-12-07 Thread SLtryer
On 10/23/2012 12:37 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: An "ARM platform" does not exist. Unlike the "PC platform" where "PC hardware" is highly standardized and almost any OS can run on almost any vendor hardware, the "ARM platform" is more like the early Linux days where instead of 3 video card ma

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-10-23 Thread Christopher Tooley
Hello, Konstantin touched on Cyanogenmod, which I think would be your best bet for having a more open OS (and ability to interact with CLI I would assume), however, I don't think it's yet supported for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (see the list here: http://get.cm/). Perhaps communications with wi

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-10-23 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 01:42:51PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > ... I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 (USA version) ... > [with] Android, ... ARM CPU platform. > ... I am considering attempting to switch it it to Linux. Gaaahh! Crazy Yasha is back! > Evidently, there is both an Ubuntu and Arch dist

Re: SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-10-22 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Yasha Karant wrote: Because my institution has elected to (mostly) go "paperless", I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 (USA version) under some recent Android environment, ARM CPU platform. After several days of using the unit as an end-user portable computer (e.g., for PDF e

SL 6 etc. on ARM CPU units

2012-10-22 Thread Yasha Karant
Because my institution has elected to (mostly) go "paperless", I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7 (USA version) under some recent Android environment, ARM CPU platform. After several days of using the unit as an end-user portable computer (e.g., for PDF editing, office suite, email, web browser,