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

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Porting by sunderland56 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is merely a packaging tool. This is not porting; the images are created from already ported code.

    Sure, the tool may be useful; but call a spade a spade, not an automatic garden restructuring device.

  2. Re:Porting? DE on a boxed SoC? by unixisc · · Score: 3, Informative

    That is what I was wondering. The default distribution that R-Pi comes w/ is Debian, so it already has the distro on which Ubuntu is derived. Is the issue here porting the likes of Mir onto the platform, as opposed to X11?

    But I doubt that Windows IoT will go anywhere