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Meet Pidora, the New Official Fedora Remix For Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on from the computers-now-officially-cheap dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today Fedora and the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) announced the release of Pidora 18, an optimized Fedora remix for the Raspberry Pi. It's based on a brand new build of Fedora for the ARMv6 architecture with greater speed and includes packages from the Fedora 18 package set. It's also the launch of the Pidora name. (The older version of Fedora for the Pi was called the Fedora Raspberry Pi Remix.)"

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  1. Excellent name by Nimatek · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is already providing some immature amusement to Russian speaking individuals.

    1. Re:Excellent name by Pi1grim · · Score: 2

      Well, I'm pretty sure english-speaking users would be even more amused if the name sounded something like "faggot", which is just a bassoon in russian, so, yeah, immature public will always get excited over weird names. And before releasing something you might want to check if it sounds right in other languages.

    2. Re:Excellent name by VortexCortex · · Score: 4, Funny

      In Soviet Russia, Basoon Blows You!

  2. Bad luck and trouble by Begemot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Work hard, release a cool product and all the geeks are talking about is how it sounds in Russian

    1. Re:Bad luck and trouble by Begemot · · Score: 2

      Nope, I say maybe it deserves one comment that doesn't try to make fun of its name

    2. Re:Bad luck and trouble by Mondor · · Score: 2

      It doesn't matter how many of them will ever use Pi. But it's the name of the Linux distribution. Naming official distribution this way makes it harder for overall Linux success. Linux user won't say that Windows is gay anymore. Because you know what? Pidora Linux! (translation from Russian: Linux of the faggot).

  3. Re:News for lazy nerds by extraqwert · · Score: 2

    Wake me up when you can run a lightweight Linux distro on an Arduino.

    Would you prefer Perduino or Pidorino?

  4. Re:Noone in Russia will use such a distribution =) by JustFisher · · Score: 2

    I'm not telling you about gay people. No homophobia here, no.

    What I actually say is that the expected reaction from an average russian-speakin user is highly predictable. 'Pidor' is a banned word, it is highly offensive, maybe the closer analog will be your 'nigger'. Would you use such a distribution, like, 'Nigger Linux' ?