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Novell: No SUSE Linux for ARM-based netbooks

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
Computerworld; By Eric Lai
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Novell's SUSE Linux appears to be one of the more popular versions of the open-source OS for netbooks, but it does not work on ARM-based devices and Novell said it did not have plans to support the chips.

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I wonder if this is because of Novel's Mono stuff or some other patent protected stuff that won't run outside of the x86 world? Nothing in the article indicated as such.
Or maybe they just don't want to make their business "partner" angry.
Historially SUSE only supported ia86 32/64. OpenSUSE has been working on an ARM port, http://projects.powerdeveloper.org/project/imx515/734

Novell is just plain weird. You might recall this is the company that said in their last quarterly financial report "Microsoft didn't sell Linux stuff for us, so we didn't sell any. Maybe we need to try doing it ourselves." OK it's a paraphrase, but I think an accurate one.

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