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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.

    1. Re:Porting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Except now that we equivocate "developer" and "programmer" and "engineer", why be critical of someone who decided to call a shell script a "port" ?

      Why do you hate America, where every child is above average?

  2. Re:Mmmmm by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 3, Funny

    To paraphrase Henry Ford,

    "you can have any flavour of pi, so long as it's raspberry".

  3. Ubuntu SE by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 2

    Does it support Ubuntu Satanic Edition, too?

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  4. Re:Porting? DE on a boxed SoC? by Anonymous Coward · · 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!

  5. 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

  6. Re:GNOME and KDE by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 2

    Open source graphics drivers for the platform are being developed for X11/Mesa/Wayland, so graphics shouldn't be too shabby and certainly more open than the average ARM smartphone.

  7. Easy as pi by niftymitch · · Score: 2

    This is almost cool.
    The R-Pi is a nice little machine.
    not too powerful to challenge the big guys.
    not too worthless to be uninteresting.

    Sufficiently interesting at all levels from bootstrap to random ABI changes to OS
    development to web servers to learn almost any programming language.

    Vastly more interesting than a multi million dollar CDC 6400 or other
    machines from the 60's like IBM 1401 or PDP8.
    Way more powerful than a Kim-1 or an Apple I or II.

    This may make the Pi funner still.
    Yes I am a fan of Pumpkin Pie.

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