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Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix Ready For Download

Posted by samzenpus on from the come-and-get-it dept.

TheNextCorner writes "The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is ready for download! The recommended distro to run on the Raspberry Pi is a Remix of the Fedora open source software. The Remix is a distribution comprised of software packages from the Fedora ARM project, plus a small number of additional packages that are modified from the Fedora versions or which cannot be included in Fedora due to licensing issues – in particular, the libraries for accessing the VideoCore GPU on the Raspberry Pi."

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  1. Bur where's my Raspnerry Pi to run it on? by Glasswire · · Score: 2, Informative

    Still waiting....

    1. Re:Bur where's my Raspnerry Pi to run it on? by zoward · · Score: 5, Informative

      There's a debian squeeze port available now right here. The problem is that it was never compiled to do floating point instructions in hardware, so you're going to lose some seroius performance by using it over Fedora.

      There are two "stock" Debian ARM distros. The one in stable (the "Arm EABI" port) doesn't support floating point. There's also one in the unstable branch called "armhf" which has support for ARM hardware floaitng point, but only for ARMv7 and up. Raspberry Pi is ARMv6 (notes for armhf platform are here..

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  2. Further slight delays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet but the first batch of 10000 pi's have
    A component issue

    The Ethernet jack on the pi is supposed to include the magnetic components but the Chinese factory
    Appear to have substituted the jack for a standard wires only

    This issue was only discovered during testing , they had to x-ray the jack to prove the substitution

    It won't delay the first batch by much but there may be delays in volume production