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Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier (softpedia.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:21AM from the your-way-right-away dept.

prisoninmate writes: Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker is an open source tool, a shell script that lets anyone port any of the official or unofficial Ubuntu Linux flavors for the Raspberry Pi 2. Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker is officially supported on the Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME flavors, and uses the traditional apt and dpkg package management systems from Debian GNU/Linux.

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Re:Mmmmm by ChunderDownunder · 2015-12-22 10:55 · Score: 3, Funny

To paraphrase Henry Ford,
"you can have any flavour of pi, so long as it's raspberry".
Re:Porting? DE on a boxed SoC? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-22 11:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Windows 10 IoT is awesome. With Windows 10 IoT, I can run Halo in full HD on a $35 Raspberry Pi 2, plus all the other thousands of games available for Windows!