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

[Alan Bell]

On 06/11/13 22:19, Dan Fish wrote:
> 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.
I don't expect a revision of the Pi that changes the Broadcom chip or 
anything else in any significant way. It doesn't need to be faster for 
what it is, and so many people have made cases and mounting things for 
it and expect the GPIO pins to be exactly where they are etc. I think 
like the Arduino it is something that doesn't really need an upgrade, 
being stable is more important, so you can replace half a classroom's 
worth of them in a few years and expect it to not be different to the 
other half.
>
> 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
>
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