[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

[James]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > > 68k -> POWER
> > > POWER -> Intel
> > > Intel -> ARM

Ah, you've made progress!

> the 6502 doesn't count

Alan, one of the keenest reasons ARM is dominating
NOW, is that in the early 1990 one person, helped
many fledling embedded linux hacks get embedded
linux running on many different flavors of ARM
processors.

RUSSELL is KING, and imho is the predominant
reason today, a decade later, that ARM dominates
the embedded space. Just look at the vintage
embedded linux ports to hundreds of boards that
mostly impoverished little companies built
and ONE MAN stood in the gap for them all to
realize their dreams:

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/

Intel and the rest wanted everyone to purchase expensive
dev board, licensed embedded RTOSes, and binaries
for most add on hardware. A prospect that precluded
the little companies from fair competition.

RUSSELL KING should be wealthy and on the Board
of directors for ARM ltd. for his unselfish
and heroic efforts! More than anyone else, he
made arm-linux a doable for thousands of companies
back when the embedded world did not think much
of linux nor embedded linux. (I know I hacked on a 
few of those old projects)....

Intel has nothing but a bunch of blood sucking
lawyers and assholes that think they are better
than the rest of us; and they shall fall!

From the Bible: "You reap what you sow"...
My most sincerest hope is that we take the embedded
gentoo efforts from the the embedded gentoo handbook,
and integrate them into the regular Gentoo handbook.
The distro that does this will be king of the distros!

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/

peace,
James