Release Puppy Linux or DSL?

[quadomatic]

Since the Pandora would come with Gmenu2X by default instead of a regular operating system (this is correct, right?), does anyone know if it would be possible to run a lightweight distribution like Puppy or DSL on the Pandora? I'm not sure if these operating systems have been compiled for ARM like Ubuntu has.

 

[greendots]

neither are compiled for arm afaik... you wont need it though because what ever we have will be optimized.

I think gmenu2x is just an app not a OS

 

[quadomatic]

The email newsletter reminding about pre-orders said the GUI would be gMenu, which is why I was wondering about a full desktop.

 

[rokdcasbah2]

Well it will have a regular OS in the sense that linux is an OS. I can't see why it wouldn't be possible to just run X server + whatever window manager you want on top of the stock linux. Rather than go for a whole new distro.

 

[cb88]

puppylinux is built with T2 now... which supports arm and could be set up to optimise a disto to the MAX for the arm cortex a8 not that i think it has been done

i build an i686 smp base for puppylinux and they were considerably faster than slackware binaries and more stable

puppylinux is not really a good place to start for a handheld distro especially since they target different archs

T2 however has huge potential it could be used to build the nand images much like openembedded but T2 claims several advantages