[ExeterLUG] Surrey LUG Visit

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Rick.Timmis wrote:

> No mention, or indeed any apparent interest in Rsspberry Pi, lots of 
> talk about using Samba to access proprietary devices like Cameras etc...

That's because RH completely failed to get any version of RH working 
reliably on the Pi. Slackers.

Debian worked out of the box (with Foundation kernel patches and initially 
a few binary blobs in the ARM userland) It then took 2 individuals a month 
or so to get Raspbian going. (Debian compiled & optimised for the ARMv6 
instruction set).

(FWIW: There are no binary blobs in the ARM side of things now - it's all 
been open sourced)

Of-course my cynical view is that RH being a commercial company probably 
didn't see any returns possible on it, so why bother to make the effort.

There is Pidora, but from what I can tell, the number of people using it 
is less than the number of RiscOS users...

Gordon