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Linux Kernel 3.7 flexes its ARM muscles

My office is across the hall from Seneca College's Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) in Toronto, Ontario.
There is a team of devs here working on the Fedora ARM translation project, and they've succeeded quite well.
I've been informed that one of the primary reasons Fedora Linux is being ported to the ARMitechture (can I get a CC-SA for that? is to enable ARM-based Server devices to replace the much larger and hungrier Intel/compatible server processor offerings.
One of the images used to sell the project is: Imagine a room the size of an American Football field covered in server racks, UPSs, and cooling equipment.
Now imagine that all being replaced by three or four units the size of a household refrigerator, doing the same job, consuming a fraction of the power and requiring a fraction of the cooling.
THAT's a goal worth the effort, if you ask me!

What about Raspberry Pi? will it be supported in the kernel now?

Thanks.

Where's the Tegra/Snapdragon/TI support? I would love to be able to convert my Archos 80 to a Linux environment, and have real control over it without sketchy rooting based on exploits, and multiwindowing, and "real" applications I already know.

Actually, I would think this could be do-able with a userland type layer above the Linux kernel and drivers that already come with the vendor-specific Android. Could this be achieved by just changing the libraries and other parts like the /usr/bin Busybox executables (that most Androids seem to have)? Some variation on that? Seems like the linux base is there, and we could just change the pieces on top of that to get a "distro" of choice. Maybe just focus on tablets, and not the phones with all their cellular provider lock-down phobias. I guess that is somewhat along the lines of what Cyanogenmod does, but that still seems to have the Android orientation of one app at a time on the screen, and using all that sketchy PlayStore app ecosystem with no worthwhile security, instead of a Linux desktop focus running mainstream, vetted repository apps..

I can dream...

Id Love to see it too, but ya gotta wonder.
Android and iOS have it pretty well sown up.
Standards are very hard to buck.

Of course, android is a linux, and
if this helps with OS fragmentation, all the better.
Updates could happen sooner to more folks than now.
Less grumbling!

It seems the author of this article doesn't realise that Andriod is Linux and Google has already included Andriod tweaks back into the main line Linux sources. In fact the big difference between Andriod and a Linux distro is that Andriod has the Dalvik virtual machine that runs java Andriod apps whilst a Linux distro would use a desktop manager such as Gnome 3 and is less efficient in memory usage. Thus the kernel is only a small part of the software required to run an OS environment.