Here's an opinion piece about the current state of Linux development on ARM. I thought it was interesting, largely agree with the author, and wanted to share it with you guys.http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/171-jonathan-corbet/445344-whats-up-with-armHaving got the beagleboard lab back up and running after the extended tour of duty doing VHDL, I find that it is very true that getting Linux working on ARM can be much more "some assembly required" than, say, a desktop. It's well worth it, considering how powerful the ARM family is. In order to develop something useful for MEP on ARM, there is quite a bit of slogging to do through various rough edges. When experimenting with cameras and video output, nothing ever really "quite worked", and the variety and duplication mentioned in the article were in full evidence.The current Angstrom build I'm working with was obtained from the Narcissus Angstrom image builder. I used this because I simply could not get the demo build of Angstrom to cleanly update from the package server. This sort of obstacle can be really frustrating. Here is the link to generate a build of Angstrom:http://narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org/This image boots, but I haven't gotten much farther than launching Firefox. More soon!-Michelle W5NYV

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