[02:12] I've got an ARM box (First-gen CuBox), and the only ubuntu distro I can find is an ubuntu 12.10 image [02:13] It looks like the package repos for it are down [02:13] Is there an alternate mirror for older ARM releases? [02:13] I'm looking to do a dist upgrade to bring it up to date, but I can't get it fully installed in the first place w/o the repos. === Netham46 is now known as Netham45 [02:26] Nevermind, found it at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ . === chihchun_afk is now known as chihchun [05:14] hello. I have not used my pandaboard in a year and was wondering if anyone had an idea how it would perform with 14.04 [06:56] nikko_01: Headless or desktop? [06:56] nikko_01: As a headless machine, they still perform really well, and are quite handy. [06:57] nikko_01: For desktop/gui type use, the situation's a bit crap, cause TI dropped support on the floor for OMAP4 quite a long while back, which means no more sketchy binary drivers which means no more 3D drivers at all, since there isn't an open source powervr driver. [06:58] infinity: so the situation has not changed. I did want to use it to build my UI as well as real-time embedded processor. [06:58] nikko_01: So, you can run a desktop that doesn't demand fancy 3D performance (xubuntu, lubuntu, etc), the 2D framebuffer performance isn't awful, but no 3D and, more importantly for some usecases (set top box?), no non-free video decode acceleration. [06:59] nikko_01: The situation isn't likely to improve ever, really. PowerVR doesn't play well with others. [07:01] infinity: Got it. It's a shame . I have 2 of those boards. I assume the same is true with beagleboard Xm? [07:01] Not sure that video's on the XM, or the state thereof. [07:02] I tink it is the same chip or earlier generation if I am not mistaken [07:02] But pretty much anything who's upstream status is "nothing but a non-free driver", we're not shipping any of those, and for most of them, it's because it's usually an unsupported non-free driver that only works with a kernel from 4 years ago. [07:03] Infinity: Thanks for the info. Any arm board in those price ranges you know of? [07:04] Haven't kept track of the latest and greatest. [07:04] But free Mali drivers are starting to not suck, AFAIK, so in the future, I'd look for SoCs with Mali GPUs. [07:04] ok. thanks for the info again. [07:05] Though, today, unless you're really into hacking together stuff and playing a LOT, pretty much everything sucks. [07:05] Except if you take a device that you know works with, say, Android or ChromeOS, and violently shoehorn their drivers and kernel into Ubuntu. [07:05] Which is actually a lot less fun than it sounds. [07:05] I don't recommend it. [07:06] does not sound like fun === wendar_ is now known as wendar === chihchun is now known as chihchun_afk === chihchun_afk is now known as chihchun === chihchun is now known as chihchun_afk === mhaberler_ is now known as mhaberler === nashpa_ is now known as nashpa === ming is now known as Guest50512 === awafaa_ is now known as awafaa === davmor2_ is now known as davmor2 === ojn_ is now known as ojn === popey_ is now known as popey === Guest91506 is now known as NCommander === NCommander is now known as Guest86602