[lug] Embedded linux distro questions

[siegfried]

Uggh! I forgot to ask these questions at the last meeting!

 

Can anyone explain the relationship between distro's like debian and the
boards they run on?

 

For example see http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi . 

 

Why is it meaningful to specify the CPU chip but not specify the
motherboard? For the PC, this makes sense because there is the standard
inspired by IBM. If I wanted to start an embedded project using an arm, mips
or m68K, how would I go about finding which boards debian was designed to
work with? Is there some mother board standard that the debian ports target
that I am not aware of?

 

Now someone on this list commented that umbuntu runs on other processors. So
I did a google search for

 

Damn small linux mips

Ubuntu mips

Fedora mips

SuSE mips 

 

expecting to find counter parts of the page
http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi and I found none! 

 

It appears to me that debian is the only one that really advertises support
for other processors (and presumably other boards). 

 

Can I infer that debian is the only linux OS for PCs that has been also
ported to mips, sparc mipsel, arm, m68K?

 

It seems like there should be a table on a web page somewhere on the
internet that has columns of "processor", "mother board", "distro name",
"distro URL", "motherboard URL" and rows for each processor.

 

Thanks,

Siegfried

 

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