ubuntu for mipsel
Bug #605694 reported by
Kip Warner
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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. A good place to start might be by adding a mipsel target to the PPA build farm.
Unlike ARM, the MIPS architecture is not patent encumbered. Thus, the future for free hardware necessary for free software likely rests with MIPS.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
affects: | ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → New |
tags: |
added: bot-stop-nagging removed: mips mipsel needs-kernel-logs needs-upstream-testing |
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I think this is a wonderful idea.
There is at least one company (Lemote) that offers mipsel-based hardware (mini-desktops and netbooks) married to a GNU operating system (gNewSense), and I am sure this number is going to explode.
A quick search online will reveal that Gentoo is pursuing a MIPS-compatible version as well. So it's already garnering interest from another camp...only a matter of time before other well known distros come on board.