<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div> <br>Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@drogon.net> wrote:<br>On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Rick.Timmis wrote:<br><br>> No mention, or indeed any apparent interest in Rsspberry Pi, lots of <br>> talk about using Samba to access proprietary devices like Cameras etc...<br><br>That's because RH completely failed to get any version of RH working <br>reliably on the Pi. Slackers.<br><br>Debian worked out of the box (with Foundation kernel patches and initially <br>a few binary blobs in the ARM userland) It then took 2 individuals a month <br>or so to get Raspbian going. (Debian compiled & optimised for the ARMv6 <br>instruction set).<br><br>(FWIW: There are no binary blobs in the ARM side of things now - it's all <br>been open sourced)<br><br>Of-course my cynical view is that RH being a commercial company probably <br>didn't see any returns possible on it, so why bother to make the effort.<br><br>There is Pidora, but from what I can tell, the number of people using it <br>is less than the number of RiscOS users...<br><br><div>I like RiscOS very much, I almost bought an archimedes on ebay :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Rick<br>Gordon<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Exeter mailing list<br>Exeter@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/exeter<br> </div></body>