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Fedora-ARM on the Raspberry Pi (Seneca CDOT)

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2011

The Raspberry Pi is a $25/$35 computer based on a Broadcom ARM chip. The Fedora ARM secondary architecture project has ported the Fedora Linux distribution to ARM-based devices. Faculty and students at Seneca College involved with the Fedora ARM project are configuring and optimizing it to work with the Raspberry Pi.

This is a quick peek at Fedora 13 running on an alpha Raspberry Pi board (model "B"). The GUI is LXDE; apps shown include AbiWord and gEdit (with plugins).

Fedora 15 ARM and the Raspberry Pi device are both expected to be available in November, 2011. For more information:

http://raspberrypi.org
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
http://cdot.senecac.on.ca

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  • Did you have to compile that distro?

  • @chucknorris687 - It's based on the Fedora ARM secondary architecture build. The build farm for Fedora ARM is hosted at Seneca, and there are lots of participants from many different places involved in that initiative.

  • But how is the application performance? is it usable for

    e.g. text editing in abiword or is it too sluggish?

    How fast is it when you move aroud windows?

    Please tell us or better make another video showing that.

  • @Ti1m4n Application performance is reasonable, but the 2D video performance is still weak (we're working on it). I'll try to post a longer video showing application/GUI performance in the near future.

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  • what class SD card is that pi running on?

    will it benefit from a class 10 card?

  • @Chrislod What makes you say that chris? :)

  • @linagee yes but you can put a full Linux distro on their clearly you don't know much about computers

  • @linagee

    ...if you could connect an hdmi cable, external HDD, keyboard, and mouse to your phone.

  • This is absolutely not a device for schooling. It's more like a ubiquitous computing device.

  • @bmw2go11 If you had a smartphone, you would not need a raspberry pi....

  • @Sudstah if you have a smartphone, just use that with wifi tethering.

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