Any "desktop" layers?

[Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>]

When asked, I always answer "sure, you could run something like Ubuntu on 
these boards".

But then when someone asks the obvious next question: "Oh, nice, how do I do 
that?" I usually suddenly remember that I had some very urgent business elsewhere.

So I'd like to forward this one to the list. There's plenty boards out there 
now with big CPUs and supporting big screens and all. If I wanted to turn such 
not-so-mainstream board into a real desktop, how does one do that?

It's really easy to find desktop distro's for Intel/AMD PCs. But once your 
machine runs on ARM or MIPS, all you can find is some vague references, and if 
you're really lucky, some binary blob that happens to run on a particular board.

The OE layers I could find, all seem to restrict themselves to small devices 
with even smaller screens, and won't give you much more than a clunky music 
player.


Kind regards,

Mike Looijmans
System Expert

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