[ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

[Alan Bell]

from the pitch . . .

"Rasbian is a great operating platform for it, the LXDE desktop is fine, 
the Wayland demo was brilliant and loads of cool projects are happening 
based on the Pi. We still want Ubuntu on it though. We are using it in 
embedded projects, it is also turning up in things like the OpenERP 
Point of Sale kit, situations where it doesn't need a responsive user 
interface (or a user interface at all). It would be great to know that 
all the libraries we are using on it are the same versions we are using 
on other computers that are running Ubuntu. "

Basically when writing code on my laptop to deploy on the pi I want it 
to be the same environment. Now I could run Debian Wheezy on my laptop 
of course, but I am not going to do that. I am running Ubuntu on my 
laptop and I want to run Ubuntu on the Pi. Seeing Ubuntu Desktop with 
Mir and Unity 8 would be kind of sweet, but the project isn't a failure 
if that doesn't work out - and the Unity desktop might well not run well 
on the Pi, we are well below the minimum recommended specification. It 
will be fun to try, but I don't want to set expectations too high. 
Having Ubuntu server as an expectation is probably deliverable, going 
above and beyond that would be a bonus.

Alan.

On 06/11/13 21:14, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Alan
>
> I'm all for maximising the choice of OS that can be run on a Pi, but 
> your Indigogo pitch doesn't make clear what advantages Ubuntu server 
> with no desktop will bring, compared to the existing Debian derivative 
> which already provides LXDE. The pitch also gives the impression that 
> if it does eventually prove possible to get Unity running on top of 
> "Pibuntu" then the performance is not going to be up to much.
>
> Please don't take this as pouring cold water on your plans, more a 
> pointer for enhancing the FAQs.
>
> Regards
>
> Nige
>
>


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