Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix

TheNextCorner writes "What software runs on the Raspberry Pi $25 computer? This video shows some of the preparation of the software package, run from a SD card using the open source Fedora OS."

Comments

Potential issues, regarding memory/cpu usage

[willaien]

I see some potential issues here.

Fedora isn't exactly known for being lightweight in the memory area. Nor are some of the programs they're demonstrating - firefox, etc.

I don't feel like a full blown desktop OS like Fedora is a good fit for the Pi. Maybe one of the more lightweight UIs like Xfce or Lxde, but definitely not Gnome or KDE.

I am looking, and don't see much indication from the article on exactly how stripped down Fedora is in order to work with it. If you take out most things that aren't necessary, recompile the kernel w/o unnecessary stuff (PCMCIA drivers on an ARM board without expansion options?), it could work well. Just don't expect Gnome or KDE. Think more like puppylinux or damnsmalllinux.

Re:Potential issues, regarding memory/cpu usage

[Nursie]

You know we have modules for that these days, right?
Stuff like pcmcia drivers only get loaded when needed.

Also it's not as if the Pi is the first linux ARM board out there. Some of us have been running debian on ARM for years.

Hell, I was able to run GNOME 2 over VNC from my Sheevaplug about 3 years ago. Configurable distros like fedora, debian, ubuntu and the other big names should be fine on Pi.

Re:Potential issues, regarding memory/cpu usage

[sensei moreh]

Look again at the video - it's LXDE!

Re:Potential issues, regarding memory/cpu usage

[AdamWill]

Fedora has implementations of just about every major desktop / WM, certainly including Xfce and LXDE. It's not GNOME or KDE-only.

Note that this is a Fedora Remix, which is a term with a specific meaning:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix

Basically a 'remix' is a very liberal conception of 'based on Fedora' - it allows the inclusion of third-party packages, the modification of Fedora packages, and so on. Really, you can do whatever you like and call it a 'Fedora Remix'.

So in this case, they can certainly tweak things extensively to target a low-resource system. Note that Fedora has a very active ARM port and community, and we've had Fedora running on many low-resource ARM devices for quite some time. Fedora is not 'just' a resource-heavy desktop distro.

Re:And can I *buy* one yet?

[ctid]

Slashdot isn't here for your specific requirements. Raspberry Pi is an interesting project and some people like to read about it. Therefore, why don't you just ignore articles about it, just as other people ignore articles that they are not interested in?