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Ubuntu 12.04 Ported To the Allwinner A10 MK802 Mini PC

Posted by timothy on from the submini-seems-appropriate dept.

New submitter beefsack writes "Thanks to the strong ARM support in the Ubuntu repositories, Ubuntu, along with Lubuntu and others have been ported to work on the new MK802 mini PC. Performance is very impressive, especially given that Mali GPU driver support in Linux is still lacking features such as hardware video decoding."

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  1. Re:and this is newsworthy why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    is there some reason a particular distro would matter?

    Yes. It's by an Ubuntu user. In their world it's the only Linux out there. Only Ubuntu is the source of all the innovation. Taking credit for the hard work of other distributions that actually are apart of the thousands of upstream projects is what Ubuntu does.

    Wanna start a fight? Tell an Ubuntard that their distro isn't Linuxy enough. It's funny because they simultaneously want to be "Linuxy" and pretend that no other Linux exist. Remember, it's not a tutorial about GIMP or Bash, it's a tutorial about how to use Ubuntu's GIMP and Ubuntu's Bash--because those products are different on Ubuntu on some fundamental level, apparently. If you really wanna piss them off just tell them that Ubuntu should try to push something other than their branding upstream.

    You can mostly stop reading if the article title has "Ubuntu" in the title.

    Mod me funny, troll, insightful, or informative... they all fit, I won't be offended by your moderation, they're all the right choice in this case.