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OpenSUSE ARM Final Less Than a Week Away; RC2 Out Now
Andy Prough writes "Jos Poortvliet of the openSUSE team has announced that openSUSE ARM RC2 is available for download and needs testing. The final version is due out on November 6th, and support has been expanded to include the following SoCs: Calxeda Highbank, CuBox, IMX 53, and Samsung Origen. Although Raspberry Pi is not yet supported, the openSUSE team plans to roll out support in the future. User Etam has posted a picture of it working without trouble in chroot on an N900, although Firefox is working "terribly slow" but not crashing."
I don't personally see much point in running another distro in chroot. You're just wasting memory and CPU on running two X11s and all, and it's obviously going to be slow.
I'm still disappointed in Nokia keeping the necessary information to be able to implement battery charging closed, such a dick move from their part; I installed Gentoo natively on my N900 -- no chroot -- and god damn it flew compared to Maemo, but no matter what I just couldn't get battery charging to work. And quite obviously not being able to charge the battery on a mobile phone makes the whole thing quite useless.
I'm having the opposite experience - recent updates to FF are running faster and with less memory usage than Chrome on my laptop. Previously, I had relegated FF to third tier browser for about the past year due to its overall sluggishness, but now its back to being the browser of choice.
Thus, I abhor Mozilla's decision to try and compete with Chrome in terms of cutting the interface
Only takes a few clicks to put the interface right back to where you like it. I'm beginning to enjoy the Chrome-like interface, after about 6 months of disliking it. As far as interface, FF has a big advantage out of the box with the drop-down-awesome-bar.
Killed by Nokia, dismissed as a failure, and ... still is the reference board for a lot of hacking projects, still showing how adaptable is it, still somewhat relevant in some circles. Why no company got a hint of it and tried to push something comparable, maybe more up to date, maybe even more open?