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Fedora ARM on the Raspberry Pi at Seneca CDOT Wed, Oct 19. 2011


What happens when you combine a $25/$35 computer, a major Linux distro's secondary arch effort, and a college that's deep into open source?

You get Fedora-ARM running on the Raspberry Pi at Seneca CDOT!

Here's a tiny video peek...

There's a lot of optimization still to be done (including X11) but look forward to a Raspberry Pi Fedora image (spin/remix), Fedora 15 for ARM, and the Raspberry Pi device itself all being available next month.

(In or near Toronto? There are three talks related to Fedora ARM and/or the Raspberry Pi at FSOSS next week).




Posted by Chris Tyler in CDOT, Facebook, Fedora, Fedora Planet, JustFedora Planet, opensource@seneca, Seneca Planet, TeachingOpenSource Planet Comments: (4) Trackbacks: (0)

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#1 - Mansour said:
2011-10-20 10:11 - (Reply)

I am very much looking forward to this. I love fedora, and I'm pretty sure I'll love Raspberry Pi along with it.
Thanks for the great work.

#2 - dave said:
2011-10-21 18:41 - (Reply)

Does Firefox work? There's a page on the wiki about tuning it, but I thought it didn't support ARMv6

http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Raspberry_Pi:_Tuning_Firefox

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android#ARMv6_.28experimental.29

#2.1 - Anonymous 2011-10-30 18:49 - (Reply)

That bottom link is Firefox on Android, presumably ARM\Linux and Android are different due to the nature of Android. That's not to say anything about ARM\Linux running Firefox, just that I don't think that your second link is relevant. :-)

#2.2 - Chris Tyler 2011-10-30 23:52 - (Reply)

Yes, Firefox runs, but it consumes too much memory for this device with the default Fedora build options. A Seneca student is looking at ways it can be optimized, and another is looking at alternative browsers.


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