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

[Tristan Santore]

On 29/02/12 13:21, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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
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"Desktop distro" is a bit misleading here. Maemo and Android are also
"desktop distros", nothing stops you from using either that way.

I think you are more referring to "Gnome". If you dont want gnome, use
lxde, xfce or some other light weight weird and wonderfully named
DE/Window Manager. They are lighter weight.

I think this topic is going a bit off-list now though. The merits of
various arm devices running various distributions is a bit off-topic.

Regards,
Tristan


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