2016-11-18 15:53 GMT+01:00 Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 18 November 2016 at 02:39, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> > Apples and oranges. There's no installer on ARM. There's no need to wipe >>> > all your data on a desktop system that you have one unit of. >>> >>> Yes, there is, we support anaconda just like on all the other arches. >>> It's not as widely used as people like to just consume the disk images >>> but it is supported and tested across a wide range of boards. We're >>> even working on adding CI to do this across a lot of boards on a >>> nightly basis. >> >> Yea, but it is still apples and oranges IMO. >> > > And I hate the phrase comparing apples and oranges. Apples and oranges > are both fruit. They both grow on trees. Apples are closer related to > roses, but both are members of the rosid family. Both fruit contain > Vitamin C though oranges have more. I can go on quite a while with > valid useful comparisons.. but my "you are ranting" buzzer has gone > off. > >> On a arm board you can swap the sdcard in seconds. Then run tests >> (images / anaconda / whatever). Then put back in the original sdcard >> and things continue to work just fine like they did before you ran the >> tests. Try that with a macbook. >> >> Also buying a separate device for testing purposes is much less of a >> problem with arm boards as the costs for that are an order of magnitude >> lower compared to a mac ... >> > > For that sort of comparison then comparing Macs to any other consumer > desktop is not possible and is its own category of hardware. I can buy > 2-3 equivalent memory/cpu/video ASUS systems for a Macbook. They may > not be as well engineered or as pretty but they are functional and do > allow me to change out memory and disks much more easily than a Mac. > Does that mean we shouldn't compare them for working? If we can't then > we really need to make this a focus early on in a release with people > wanting it helping out.. <hint, hint> > > I do not really get you point here. I wanted to buy an ASUS but it didn't work then* (it seems to be solved now). * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73530 /Andreas >> cheers, >> Gerd >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
