[Freedombox-discuss] Ubuntu and Freedom Box?

[Melvin Carvalho]

What is the future of Ubuntu with embedded devices? Specifically the
ARM based Guru Plug and the Sheeva Plug?

ARM is now a fully supported architecture in Ubuntu. The ARM ecosystem
is coming together in something called Linaro, and Canonical is very
much part of that.

Linaro is a forum to get stuff done, not a consortium or a new distro,
it’s where we can set a roadmap for a unified ARM kernel, and set the
pace for the ARM toolchain, in 10.10, for example, the whole of Ubuntu
is built with GCC that includes patches from ARM which makes
everyone’s life a little better, but a little more complicated and
helps get those patches upstream faster, because they’ve been
exercised at Ubuntu-scale, which is good.

So, you can count on ARM support in 11.04 and the foreseeable future.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/mark-shuttleworth-talks-projcet-harmony-unity-and-more/

Good news?