Development State of FatDogArm?

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Development State of FatDogArm?

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The last FatDogArm release dates back to 16 April 2016:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/arm-index.html

It looks like the project is still in beta.

Are there any further developments planned and a stable release?

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Re: Development State of FatDogArm?

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The project is currently under cryogenic stasis.

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Re: Development State of FatDogArm?

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That's a shame.

Considering the global energy crisis, there is an increasing demand for small computing devices with low power consumption and FatDog would be a cool OS to support that trend... :)

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Re: Development State of FatDogArm?

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Haha, don't get taken by the hype. All things being equal, same amount of computing power requires more or less the same amount of energy. ARM chips are lower-power only because they have lower computing power.

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Re: Development State of FatDogArm?

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Less is more. The idea is to run a basic office desktop (browser + Libreoffice) at full HD resolution energy-efficient on ARM hardware... :thumbup:

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