[fedora-arm] Thought there might be some Interest. Rasperry Pi

[Gordan Bobic]

Tristan Santore wrote:
> On 29/02/12 13:07, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
>>>> Frank Murphy wrote:
>>>>> http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi
>>>> Still only available for pre-order-interest-registration, though.
>>>>
>>>> The good news, however, is that the type A device (available some
>>>> time later
>>>> this year allegedly) looks like it will also ship with 256MB of RAM
>>>> (instead
>>>> of the originally planned 128MB), which elevates it from "useless" to
>>>> "mostly useless" as far as running a current Linux distro is concerned.
>>> Fedora at least runs just fine with 256Mb of RAM. I have a few devices
>>> with such spec that will happy run a UX on them, the XO-1 is one
>>> example.
>> Define "runs just fine", please. Default desktop environment with some
>> commonly used applications like Firefox and Thunderbird? My Thunderbird
>> expands to over 150MB of RAM when it loads.
>>
>> And then there's LibreOffice...
>>
>> If "runs just fine" is intended to mean "average desktop use", I don't
>> think the experience with 256MB of RAM fits the description.
> 
> I think you are missing the point of the Raspberry PI. It is not meant
> to be a "professional" proper workplace fully blown machine. It is a
> development board for kids and teenagers, with the odd University
> student thrown in. Whatever other developers do with it is another story.

If we're going to talk about missing the point then IMO running a full 
fat desktop distro like Fedora (or Ubuntu or any derivative of the two) 
on it is missing the point.

Gordan