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

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

Posted Mar 6, 2012 16:56 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
In reply to: Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User) by wookey
Parent article: Raspberry Pi interview: Eben Upton reveals all (Linux User)

I'll cycle back and look at the multiarch capabilities and discussion in more detail.

If you are correct, and I am wrong, then it'll be that much more difficult for the external Ubuntu community to spin up support for this specific arch based entirely on sweat equity without buy-in from Canonical to provider the additional infrastructure and tie it into launchpad. That would be very unfortunate. I'd rather wish you were wrong, but I guess I'm holding out too much hope for the new technical capabilities to work around the corporate/community conflict of interest dynamic.

-jef

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

Posted Mar 6, 2012 18:46 UTC (Tue) by wookey (guest, #5501) [Link]

hmm, apologies for the total formatting fail in my previous comment. (Dear Jon - please bring us an 'edit' button so our incompetence, and failure to use 'preview' properly, need not remain for all to see).

wrt to distro support I'd say why not just use Debian on your Pi? No particular reason to use Ubuntu in this case. There is already a Debian image and it will no doubt become a supported platform.