Pi has an insane following in the Linux community.  It has good support=20
now, and it will have excellent support for a good while.  I'm=20
constantly seeing Pi-related updates and enhancements to many Linux=20
packages and projects.

Random other vendors, not so much.

The chip vendors' board support packages generally leave a whole lot to=20
be desired... and the board vendors almost always just package that up=20
and ship with minimal tweaking for correct pins, etc.  If the upstream=20
chip vendors can't bother to fix drivers in a timely manner, what hope=20
do the massively smaller board vendors have?

If I didn't have my own custom ARM board platform already I'd have a few=20
Pis for sure.

I've done a good amount of what I consider ridiculously basic fixes for=20
Linux drivers provided by my chip vendor.  I'm VERY happy that the Linux=20
kernel community took it upon themselves to enforce some kind of=20
standard and clean up the vendor-specific craziness that was Linux ARM=20
support.  I'm not actually sure where that's at right now, but I know=20
I'll be finding that very useful later.  (I got my vendor-supplied=20
kernel tree working, moving to a mainline kernel is a to-do item but not=20
incredibly high on the priority list)


Darron

On 1/11/13 8:34 AM, Carl Denk wrote:
> Yesterday, the comment was about OS support for the future. What is the
> situation with the Pi and Linux, is it supported long term?
>
> On 1/10/13 10:52 PM, veegee wrote:
>> On 2013-01-10 1:02 PM, peter green wrote:
>>> Andriod is ok as a phone/tablet OS but for desktop and embedded uses i'=
d
>>> much rather have a more regular linux system.
>> Exactly this. Couldn't agree more.
>>
>>> Given that no brand is listed I cant check this one out. However I
>>> suspect this is from some small GPL violating chineese vendor and you
>>> will be pretty much stuck with whatever version of andriod it ships wit=
h.
>>

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