[clue] What do you run on your Pi?

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 06:35:53 PM David L. Anselmi wrote:
> What distros are you using on your Pi hardware?
> 
> I run Debian, so naturally I use Raspbian on a Pi.
> 
> I've figured out how to debootstrap an image so I don't need the Raspbian
> images as I like to start with a bare system and dress it up how I like.
> 
> There was a talk recently that I thought was interesting:
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2013/debconf13/high/1021_ARM_BOF.o
> gv
> 
> My thoughts:
> 
> The distros settled on ARMv7 and then RPi came out and sold millions of
> units running ARMv6.  That shouldn't be embarrassing or inconvenient, it
> should be a chance to figure out how to handle the next time more easily. 
> (Of course the issues are very abstract to me so apologies if I'm naive.)
> 
> I'm encouraged that Raspbian is doing a good job and it doesn't seem too big
> an issue that they aren't Debian.  It's fine if they're a port or pure
> blend or just Not Debian(TM).  I'm curious what other distros are doing
> with the Pi.
> 
> If ARMv6 became supported by Debian it would be an official installer for
> the Pi.  It isn't obvious to me how that works since you have to boot off
> the media you're installing to.  (A really small image doing PXE boot
> and/or net install doesn't seem sufficient.  But I guess a boot image on SD
> with the install going to a USB drive might be reasonable.)
> 
> I don't know that I care about an official installer since SD cards are so
> easy to move between machines and you can create images on any
> architecture.  Seems to me that most people have the skills to build their
> own image or are willing to run images built by someone else.  But I don't
> know how hard it is to build a complex image and maybe Raspbian isn't
> packaging a kernel at all.
> 
> I'd like to see the Pi become more capable over time and for it and the
> distros to become more aligned.  It would be really cool if the Freedombox
> reference hardware cost $35 instead of $100.
> 
> Dave
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I put Arch Linux on mine.  I'm planning on putting DokuWiki on it.

They're supposedly working on a successor to the Raspberry Pi.  Considering 
their goals, I'm not sure what they might release.  However, it seems to have 
inspired others to develop their own boards.  Those might be more interesting.