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What Arm do you plan on running?

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Hello everyone,

 

     I was Wondering what everyones choice for an Arm/OS they are plannig on running and why? I am not the most experienced in Linux just the little I have learned in my IT degree for Linux has caught my attention. I Dont know themain difference between the three, Debian, Arch, or Fedora, I have only used Fedora. Any insight or sugestions would be great and aid in my descision on which one to run when I recieve the RPi.Thank you ahed of time for you sugestions and answers.

 

Bjorn

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  • I won't be getting a RasPi from the first batch, so I'm going to read the comments from RasPi pioneers at raspberrypi.org and here to see what problems there might be with the various distros.  The current information is that Fedora is intended for new GNU/Linux users who want to be sheltered from OS details and Fedora will the be the OS for the education-oriented launch later this year.  Debian is better suited for serious developers.  Arch is smaller and uses less memory, but requires more GNU/Linux knowledge.

     

    Personally, I expect I'll be going with Debian, about which I've always heard good things.  I need gcc from day one, which is not included by default in Fedora.  Supposedly it's easy to download packages for any of the distros, especially the first two.  I don't see any point in downloading anything until I have a firm ship date for my RasPi.

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    I personally have moved from slackware, to suse, to redhat, to debian to ubuntu.

     

    What I like about debian/ubuntu is that with "apt-get install XXX" you get to download/install a package. Easy. I hear this is now also possible with redhat/fedora, except that the program is called "yum".

     

    Other than that, they should be somewhat similar. If you WANT you can dive in and change low-level stuff. If you don't you can stick with using the programs offered.

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  • in reply to johnbeetem

    I personally have moved from slackware, to suse, to redhat, to debian to ubuntu.

     

    What I like about debian/ubuntu is that with "apt-get install XXX" you get to download/install a package. Easy. I hear this is now also possible with redhat/fedora, except that the program is called "yum".

     

    Other than that, they should be somewhat similar. If you WANT you can dive in and change low-level stuff. If you don't you can stick with using the programs offered.

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