Re: [webmin-l] Due to Apple's M1, ARM is in the news again -- which led back to Webmin

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 08/Dec/2020 09:40 Liam Proven <lp...@gm...> wrote ..
> I can't remember where this came up in the news recently, but thanks
> to the superb performance figures for macOS on Apple's new ARM Macs,
> naturally people are talking about Linux on ARM, Linux on M1, Amazon's
> Graviton server ARM chip and so on.
> 
> That led to some discussion of Corel's Netwinder, a small inexpensive
> ARM server from the turn of the century.
> 
> What I did not know was that Webmin was part of the inspiration for
> the Netwinder:
> 
> http://www.netwinder.org/arm_info.html
> 
> Sadly Corel did a deal with MS to licence VBA for WordPerfect Office,
> and the terms of the deal included the cancellation of WordPerfect for
> Linux, WordPerfect Office for Linux, Corel LinuxOS and the Netwinder.

Wow, that was a long time ago! I do vaguely remember talking to the Netwinder
folks at the time about Webmin customization and ARM support, which
was pretty simple since almost all of Webmin is in Perl.

 - Jamie