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Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C

Posted by timothy on from the support-is-a-many-splendored-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu Core is a tiny Ubuntu distribution aimed at the Internet of Things, using a new transactional packaging format called Snappy rather than the venerable Debian packaging format. It recently gained support for I2C and GPIO on the Raspberry Pi 2, and a quick demo is given here. Ubuntu's Core support site says that the support for Raspberry Pi 2 isn't yet official, but provides some handy tips for anyone who wants to try it out.

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  1. Does it have systemd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's slow on my new 24-core Xeon servers. I can't imagine how bad it is on a Pi.

    At least with a Pi, you're not going to be running as many services, which systemd makes very difficult to troubleshoot since it swallows stederr, ignores exit statuses, and discards a lot of syslog messages.