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

[Dan Fish]

I think another aspect that should not be ignored is the potential 
roadmap for such arm devices. Admittedly I'm not aware of the Raspberry 
Pi's future direction, but in general more and more such arm devices 
seem to be in the offing. The raspberry pi itself has captured a 
stunningly large market share and surely Ubuntu should be trying to get 
a distro out at the start of the project, rather than being latecomers 
to Raspberry Pi V2.

Unity performance notwithstanding, ubuntu server has a lot of potential 
on such a device (and IMHO is server is the jewel in the ubuntu crown)

Regards
Dan

Disclaimer - ubuntu server is in the roadmap for the NHS spine v2 ( 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/nhs_drops_oracle_for_riak/) <- 
sorry for the El Reg link, but it's a brief and pretty accurate summary 
of future plans


On 06/11/13 21:52, Alan Bell wrote:
> 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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