openSUSE on UMPC

Rafa Grimán <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:24:38 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.laptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi :)

Is there any effort being put into openSUSE/SLE so that it can run on UMPCs? 
I'm asking this because the UMPCs seem to be the new fad: Intel's pushing 
hard on these types of devices, so are laptop vendors (Samsung, Fujitsu, 
Asus, ...)

I bought a UMPC (ASUS R2Hv) some time ago and it wasn't easy to get it up and 
running with openSUSE 10.3.

I've heard Ubuntu is developing a version for MID and UMPCs (Ubuntu Mobile and 
Embedded), Red Flag's got another distro/version, Moblin, ...

It would be quite nice if openSUSE/SLE had some type of support for 
UMPCs/MIDs. And it wouldn't be so difficult. For starters, if openSUSE/SLE 
could support 800x480 out of the box, that would be very nice.

I know device support is a bit complicated, but at least on the R2Hv all 
devices are supported, you just have to download the drivers (many of them 
precompiled and copy them over to a directory).

   Rafa

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