Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User) [LWN.net]

Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

Posted Mar 6, 2012 8:03 UTC (Tue) by kragil (guest, #34373)
In reply to: Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User) by dlang
Parent article: Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

All of that may be true, but Canonical is all about Unity and Unity is not going to work with 256mb RAM PERIOD
So porting Ubuntu to RPi is utterly pointless.
The only sane choice is to wait until 512mb models (and maybe multiarch) arrive and then support those.

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Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

Posted Mar 6, 2012 10:15 UTC (Tue) by thisisme (guest, #83315) [Link] (3 responses)

All of that may be true, but Canonical is all about Unity and Unity is not going to work with 256mb RAM PERIOD So porting Ubuntu to RPi is utterly pointless.

As far as I know, Ubuntu Server Edition does not include Unity, or any other desktop environment for that matter.

Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

Posted Mar 6, 2012 13:38 UTC (Tue) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

The main purpose of the RPi is to be a desktop for kids. A lot of geeks might use the 1080p playback.
So the server edition might work but will be fairly useless and anyways the thing has a powerful GPU and fairly weak CPU and a tiny amount of RAM (it actually has less than 256MB). Not the best specs for a server.

Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

Posted Mar 7, 2012 4:05 UTC (Wed) by thisisme (guest, #83315) [Link]

Agreed. I was just responding to the statement "Canonical is all about Unity", but I am guessing perhaps you actually meant "Ubuntu Desktop Edition is all about Unity".

Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

Posted Mar 6, 2012 14:51 UTC (Tue) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link]

Lubuntu would run quite well (if it was on ARMv6) since it uses LXDE - although that's not an official Ubuntu variant, it's semi-blessed by the Ubuntu project (part of the main archives).

Linux Mint LXDE would also be a good option, as it's Debian Testing based, but someone would have to do the work of ARMv6 support - http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1930 ... Probably easier to use Debian directly and port a few Linux Mint bits over if needed.

I agree that it's a strategic mistake for Canonical to miss out on such a huge grass roots movement that focuses on Linux hacking for kids.