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OS for Rasberry Pi

e14 Contributor

Hi I am not a computer expert but I ordered RP for learning purpose I  was just wandering when can you purchase the preloaded OS for RP??

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  • Out of the three OS's that are going to be available Debian, Fedora, Arch, which one would be the fastest. I'm hoping Debian will be the distro of choice because I'm most familiar with it, but I'm willing to learn new tricks.

  • in reply to e14 Contributor

    Joel,

         I beleive that you asked which distro would be the fastest.  The basic answer would be Arch linux as I have run it before and it carries the least "excess baggage".  However, speed is dependent on what environment is used (combination of X-Windows, Window Manager, Desktop Environment, etc).  I've looked at some of literature and each of the three listed are making RPi "optimized" (not just compiled for ARM) distros, which means that everything from the parts I mentionned to the applications themselves would be tailored.

        In the end, with the price of 2 to 4GB SD cards being rather cheap, you could set up all three and do your own assessment.

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    Joel,

         I beleive that you asked which distro would be the fastest.  The basic answer would be Arch linux as I have run it before and it carries the least "excess baggage".  However, speed is dependent on what environment is used (combination of X-Windows, Window Manager, Desktop Environment, etc).  I've looked at some of literature and each of the three listed are making RPi "optimized" (not just compiled for ARM) distros, which means that everything from the parts I mentionned to the applications themselves would be tailored.

        In the end, with the price of 2 to 4GB SD cards being rather cheap, you could set up all three and do your own assessment.

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