Change description of user namespaces to talk about containers in general

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-  <h1>User namespaces [3.7]</h1>
+  <h1>More support for containers</h1>
   <ul class="incremental">
     <li>
-      One of the last missing pieces for OpenVZ-like containers
+      Containers are lightweight VMs - run on the same kernel as host,
+      but with limited privileges and resources
     </li>
     <li>
-      Each user namespace has its own <tt>root</tt> user with
-      privileges over the users and processes in that namespace - but
-      not the whole system
+      Previously done by OpenVZ and Linux-VServer; gradually being
+      reimplemented upstream
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      User namespaces (added in 3.7) support the existence of a
+      <tt>root</tt> user inside the container that is unprivileged
+      outside the container
     </li>
     <li>
       Currently somewhat experimental, and requires filesystem
       changes which haven't been done for XFS
     </li>
     <li>
-      Make it work: send patches to upstream XFS developers (this
-      one's hard)
+      Make user namespaces work: send patches to upstream XFS
+      developers (this one's hard)
     </li>
   </ul>
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>ARMv7 multiplatform</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Until recently, each ARM kernel image could support only a small
+      set of different chips
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian 'armmp' kernel now supports ARMv7 SoCs from Calxeda,
+      Freescale and Marvell, and others should be supported soon
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Debian could run on a much larger range of ARM hardware - but we
+      need installer and boot loader support to make this easy
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make it work: join the ARM porters and d-i team
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Make the GPUs work: join a reverse-engineering project
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>