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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. 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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  2. 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: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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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