What Arm do you plan on running?

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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Former Member over 13 years ago

As my interest in the Raspberry Pi is purely intended for use as a Mediacentre, I was planning on going for the Raspbmc distribution being developed at the moment.

http://www.raspbmc.com/
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Former Member over 13 years ago

As my interest in the Raspberry Pi is purely intended for use as a Mediacentre, I was planning on going for the Raspbmc distribution being developed at the moment.

http://www.raspbmc.com/
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morgaine over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I'll try them all, since none of them are my distro of choice which is Gentoo, and Gentoo is probably inappropriate for Rpi because compiling everything from scratch natively would take so long on the Pi's weak CPU. Also, the continuous rewriting of storage that source-based distros like Gentoo perform acts against SDcard longevity, as well as taking up a lot of space. I could cross-build Gentoo for the Rpi, but native use is probably not viable.

One distro that seems very suitable for Rpi is the minimalist Puppy Linux, so I'll keep an eye open on progress there as well.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

this earlier post may be helpful:
http://www.element14.com/community/thread/17582?tstart=90
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morgaine over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

You wrote:

> Neither Debian nor Fedora has GPU accelerated X Window drivers,
> and neither is built specifically for the v6 ARM11 architecture.

Has anything been mentioned on the blog or elsewhere about a distro with X acceleration and also compiled for the Pi's specific architecture?
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

Apparently, nobody is working on X acceleration, and one guy is working on
compiling Debian for ARM 11.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/debian-hard-float-armhf-for-rpi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/general-discussion/so-whos-workingworked-on-an-xorg-server
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

Yeah, something like puppy linux or even DSL would be great for the Raspberry pi. I remember running DSL entirelly in RAM on a pentium4 machine with 500MB RAM. It made my Core2Duo with 4GB RAM look slow
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morgaine over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

I still have a working P2 with 32MB and a couple of P3's with 64MB running firewalls, and Linux loves them (various distros). It really doesn't need much RAM to be perfectly happy.
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