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Fedora 25 Beta Linux Distro Now Available For Raspberry Pi (betanews.com)
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes:
Fedora 25 Beta Workstation is now available for both the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3. In addition to the Workstation image, Fedora 25 Beta Server is available too. Owners of ARMv6-powered Pi models, such as the Pi Zero, are out of luck, as the operating system will not be made available for them.
Peter Robinson (from the Fedora release engineering team) writes, "The most asked question I've had for a number of years is around support of the Raspberry Pi. It's also something I've been working towards for a very long time on my own time... The kernel supports all the drivers you'd expect, like various USB WiFi dongles, etc. You can run whichever desktop you like or Docker/Kubernetes/Ceph/Gluster as a group of devices -- albeit it slowly over a single shared USB bus!"
Peter Robinson (from the Fedora release engineering team) writes, "The most asked question I've had for a number of years is around support of the Raspberry Pi. It's also something I've been working towards for a very long time on my own time... The kernel supports all the drivers you'd expect, like various USB WiFi dongles, etc. You can run whichever desktop you like or Docker/Kubernetes/Ceph/Gluster as a group of devices -- albeit it slowly over a single shared USB bus!"
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Good to see that the Slashdot web coders are still too incompetent to handle Unicode yet.
It's 2016. Might as well accept that 7 bits isn't enough for everybody and add utf 8 support.
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It's not stated in the summary or article.
What a great piece of kit. Shows how if you make something useful, documented, inexpensive, widely available, and open (yes to a point) -- build it and they will come. Hobbyists and professionals come together.
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Does it have shitstemd? I'll probably give it a miss.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Nuff said.
Will I need to bring over my forklift to get you out of the basement first?
My first impression was that the implied accusation here is that the other person is extremeley fat, but while I would understand how something like a winch could help, how exactly would you operate a forklift in this situation?
Or maybe I read it wrong, and what you mean is that the other person is part of a subculture of basement dwellers (possibly with redneckish undertones) that can be lured out by the promise of showing them a forklift. I could see myself being enticed to get out of my house if someone was coming over to show me their new Dodge Viper, so I guess other people could be into forklifts, especially if they belong to a blue collar class.
Either way, could you clarify? Based on the thread layout, that forklift comment seems like a tipping point and I feel left out of the conversation because I don't fully understand the implications.
lucm, indeed.
The only thing I expect from a desktop it to get out of my way. Most of my work is using applications like chrome or open-office that are the same on windows or linux. Most of Windows specific programs (like photoshop) work out of the box in wine. My PC is secured with ssh. I can share directories my the PC of my wife (also using ubuntu) using ssh-fs. If I have left a document I am working on at home, I can wake up my pc from internet and access it. If I want to download a youtube video, it is as simple as typing install youtube-dl. With docker, I can install different programming ecosystems in different images. NFS configuration for my NAS disk is straight forward without clicking insane checkboxes like in windows.
I agree that the desktop is nicer in Windows but once you stop trying to do on linux what you used to do in windows, your productivity increases incredibly. Command line is fare more effective than mouse as soon as you have a repetitive task you can automate.
It's not documented well at all
bullshit, the GPIO is 100% documented and 100% usable
But it's not fast.
It's way, way, faster than your desktop from 10 years ago. "Fast" is all relative, you give NO reference to your claim.
And open? No. Not even a little bit,
That's funny, the GPIO code is 100% open
WHAT A LOSER
The Pi is used in a digital modem/radio communications system, and replaces a desktop or laptop computer, making the entire radio/computer fit in one small box.
But I see no reason to switch to the Fedora distro at the moment. The only disadvantage of the Pi is it's a little slow during the make process.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I'm running Void Linux (which is rolling release like Arch) on my Pis, very happily, with runit, which follows the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well :D. Runsvdir, the service manager, is basically a clone of daemontools, where each service has its own supervisor that waits on the child to die, and automatically restarts it if necessarily. It's also one of the fastest booting binary systems. And there's also Alpine (which is heavily focused on security) and Raspbian. I'm not sure what Fedora really brings to the table.