On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 13:07 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
On 06/08/2012 01:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 14:07 +0200, Mario Torre wrote:
On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 14:34 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
that would not allow custom kernel and such. Don't support the locked down platform; the answer to "Fedora on ARM" is "don't buy a Win8 ARM system and expect to run Fedora".
One should be very, very careful with sentences like this one.
With more and more machines turning to ARM, simply dismiss it as a "don't buy a Win8 ARM" *may* possibly work right now, but it will turn against us in the future.
That is only assuming that Windows on ARM is successful, of which so far there's been precious little indication.
There is a tidal wave of these PC ARM devices coming:
http://www.itworld.com/hardware/240039/qualcomm-targets-pcs-takes-aim-intels...
The question of whether anyone's going to buy them is, however, unsettled.