Hey list, On the advice of some kind folks in #ubuntu-meeting, this is apparently a good place to discuss the following.
It would be very nice if Ubuntu was available for mipsel hardware. It is an emerging platform with powerful capabilities and a promising future. We know that building most of the packages of a typical Ubuntu installation is possible for mipsel, given that Ubuntu based distributions like gNewSense do this already - albeit not as elegantly. An incrementalist approach might be to start by at least adding a mipsel target to the PPA build farm. Unlike ARM, the MIPS architecture is not as patent encumbered. The future for free hardware necessary for free software likely can be benefited through an adoption of more MIPS hardware. MIPS hardware is cheap and there is a plethora of free software already available for it. The more free software available, the greater the useful life to the end user, and thus the less electronic garbage that will end up in landfills or dumped on the undeveloped world's doorstep. Having a MIPSel port of Ubuntu allows millions of users a greater freedom of choice on which hardware they'd like to use their favourite operating system on. I think this is a great platform, well deserving of more attention. I've added some of my thoughts on this earlier on Launchpad, if anyone would prefer to comment there: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/605694 Respectfully, -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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