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Story: Novell: No SUSE Linux for ARM-based netbooksTotal Replies: 2
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moopst

Mar 17, 2009
1:44 PM EDT 		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.
gus3

Mar 17, 2009
1:50 PM EDT 		Or maybe they just don't want to make their business "partner" angry.
tuxchick

Mar 17, 2009
2:01 PM EDT 		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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