F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking about hardware - and that's more a question for Spot - could
>> be possible to organize another round of HW give away as we did with
>> Raspberries? With a different HW, that's supported in Fedora and it
>> seems like there are pretty cheap options either. With some metrics,
>> like commits/packages/packages that need significant effort to make
>> it working on ARM...
>
> The sentiment is nice, but I don't think that last hardware give away
> went all that well.  Also, to get something competent is going to cost
> money.  I have no idea what the Fedora budget looks like, but frankly
> I'd rather use money on something more beneficial than buying hardware
> for a bunch of people that aren't already working on ARM.  It will
> likely have a shiny factor of about 1 week, and then it will sit on
> their desk collecting dust.

I agree, not sure what the contribution to the RPi stuff was like but
for the XOs that were given away I'm not aware of a single
contribution to any of the Fedora/OLPC/Sugar projects as a result of
it.

Peter