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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. Re:Bur where's my Raspnerry Pi to run it on? by HansKloss · · Score: 4, Funny

      Get Gentoo instead.
      It will finish compiling shortly before Raspberry Pi arrives.

  2. Re:Nobody's got one by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, let's not. This is one very exciting little hunk of hardware. It's legitimate news that the software is ready, too.

    Hey! Did you know that if you're not interested in a story, you can do this thing called "not clicking on it" and that'll keep it ENTIRELY out of your hair? it's high-tech, I know, and not everyone has the 'leet skillz to be able to pull a complex operation like that off, but hey, maybe with some remedial evening classes at your local community college, you too can learn to only click on stories that interest you!

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  3. Can't wait... by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To see what goodies people will come up with that can be "stuck on" this thing. Power monitoring, sensors of all kinds, cameras, serial and parallel ports, wifi and bluetooth, ham radio, maybe an SDR front end, a real time clock (a notable missing hunk-o-hardware), etc.

    mmmm, cheap computing. MMMMM!

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    1. Re:Can't wait... by oakgrove · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's 25 dollars, numb nuts. That's what makes it different.

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    2. Re:Can't wait... by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Dude, the pogoplug, sheevaplug and dockstar are all more than twice as expensive as the pi. Those dollars matter. $35 is cookie jar money for a lot more people than $80 or $90 is. It's not just HDMI, it's HDMI and price and expandability.

      but the sobering reality is that it's just another low-powered Linux computer. It does not open up new possibilities.

      Um. Well, we will see. Personally, I am pretty confident it will. There are thresholds beyond which certain effects don't occur, and $100 of cookie jar injury is probably one of them. $35... a lot less so. $35 that plugs right into your HD tv or monitor... ok, now we're cooking.

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    3. Re:Can't wait... by stms · · Score: 2

      Tax and shipping will be at most $10. The power adapter most people will probably already have because its a phone charger. If they don't that's probably only another $10. So that's $45-$55 to get the device to your door. Not only that but these will be distributed by schools which means shipping and tax go out the window and they could get a bulk discount for chargers.

    4. Re:Can't wait... by CastrTroy · · Score: 2

      You must not live in Canada. I ordered mine. It was $12 shipping. Plus they charged $38 CDN for it. Total price after tax was $56. I don't know why I had to pay $38. The Canadian dollar is doing better than the US dollar right now. According to xe.com, $35 US = 34.63 $CDN. I bought it anyway.

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    5. Re:Can't wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      Raspberry Pi will magically enable them to do something cool.

      Talk about completely out of touch with reality. No dummy. Its all about price/performance metrics. Before the Pi, you'd be spending something in the area of $150-$300. Its the price which makes Pi stand out. Its the price point which move it out of a nitche, expensive research type toy to a much, much wider audience. For the price of one more traditional board, you can now get four to five Pis and that's a hell of a lot of processing power.

      Why is it anymore there are so many on slashdot who can't see what is extremely obvious.

  4. Re:Nobody's got one by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, maybe those 'leet skills are even a little more 'leet than I thought.

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  5. Re:Nobody's got one by mug+funky · · Score: 2

    that's alright, it's not long to wait before the next APPLE APPLE APPLE story you're waiting for...

  6. Re:Smell, powerful, and... implantable? by LordLucless · · Score: 2

    Aaaaand, the obligatory: http://xkcd.com/644/

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  7. Waiting for Pi Day? by mdsolar · · Score: 3, Funny

    3-14 at 3 pm?

  8. Sugar Labs? by Ian.Waring · · Score: 2

    Any ideas if all the work at Sugar Labs will work on this remix within the current memory size constraints of a Raspberry Pi?

  9. 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

  10. Re:Imagine... by psergiu · · Score: 2

    It was already imagined.
    It is called a "Bramble".

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  11. Re:Arduino? by robthebloke · · Score: 2

    The Pi is basically an iPad 1 with HDMI instead of the touchscreen, is much powerful than an 8bit arduino, and both are similarly priced. The Pi is basically a nice platform for children to start learning how to program, and for adults who like playing with awesome toys. The arduino is much more geared towards hardware/electronics projects rather than software development. The two platforms don't really compete with each other, but they do compliment each other rather well.... I suspect most people would own both.

  12. Minix/ARM by unixisc · · Score: 2

    Methinks the ideal distro for this box would be the ARM version of Minix 3. They should get that on the RP, and start from there.