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From my experience in running Debian on ARM, I can say that the software difference is really non-existence. Any of the normal Debian OSS software works fine..
by jawee 16y ago
From my experience in running Debian on ARM, I can say that the software difference is really non-existence. Any of the normal Debian OSS software works fine.. I did not run into any problems with software not working except for the closed source programs that didn't have ARM packages. I really can't imagine the architecture shift being that big of a problem, as I'm assuming the bulk of the work for ARM with Debian was just recompiling packages.. I had a working XFCE desktop with common packages like Iceweasel (Firefox), OpenOffice.org, GIMP, and so on that was just as easy to set up as x86.
- regularfry 16y agoIt used to be the case that Java had serious performance problems on the ARM. I don't know if that's still true.
- junkbit 16y agoThe last time I had an architecture issue was with a SNES emulator that had pieces hard coded in 32bit Asm. Pretty rare these days. Maybe things like VirtualBox too.
- konad 16y agoHow about ffmpeg / libdv / mplayer Last time I looked they had hand coded asm.
- jawee 16y agoI only tried with VLC player which didn't present any immediate problems, but I don't know if it uses any of these libraries.