On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 17:56 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 11/28/2011 04:06 PM, Chris Tyler wrote:
We're working on the Raspberry Pi remix here (it has to be a remix rather than a spin for now). As I've written on the Raspi forums, anyone expecting to use Eclipse on a Pi is probably dreaming -- there's just not enough RAM. The model "B" device has 256M, but the GPU will normally be allocated 64M, leaving 192M for apps. You can boot in as little as 11M, but after X and a DE, it doesn't look like there will be enough RAM to use Eclipse without thrashing.
I've been playing with it, and Eclipse works well from remote X (see attached), but not when run on the local display. Eclipse debugging seems to want about 135M, so it doesn't fit nicely with X.
That's good to hear. Sounds like you need double Pi ... one for Eclipse and one for the X server :-)
Is there an F17 remix on the horizon?
Yes -- a group of students here have been hacking away on various pieces over the last semester. I'm moving their stuff to my research group for long-term maintenance and we'll push as much of it as appropriate into Fedora proper -- there will still be a very few bits with ugly license issues or where we need to build or optimize differently and haven't yet reconciled with the main Fedora package, but these are rare and should diminish over time.
-Chris