Re:How far has Microsoft fallen?
by Nursie on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @05:14AM
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"Linux for ARM supports legacy x86 apps"
?!?
I'm a huge linux fan but I've never heard of this outside of some sort of processor-emulation layer and full VM which wouldn't give you the world's best performance.
Have I missed something?
--edit--
Did you mean support for older apps is (comparatively) easy because they can be rebuilt from source?
Also I'm not really sure what you mean by linux support for ARM being in the early stages. I've been running linux on a variety of ARM devices for ~8 years now, since the NSLU2 days. Good support for a huge variety of ARM SoCs has been in place for many years now.
?!?
I'm a huge linux fan but I've never heard of this outside of some sort of processor-emulation layer and full VM which wouldn't give you the world's best performance.
Have I missed something?
--edit--
Did you mean support for older apps is (comparatively) easy because they can be rebuilt from source?
Also I'm not really sure what you mean by linux support for ARM being in the early stages. I've been running linux on a variety of ARM devices for ~8 years now, since the NSLU2 days. Good support for a huge variety of ARM SoCs has been in place for many years now.