IRC log of #cubox of Thu 27 Jun 2019. All times are in CEST < Back to index

07:40 Exaga> jnettlet: you are not wrong :>
15:44 Exaga> does anybody run raspbian on any solidrun devices?
15:51 vpeter> Why would anyone do that?
15:52 Exaga> vpeter: suicidal tendencies?
15:54 vpeter> Something like that yes
16:08 Exaga> absoluut
16:21 jnettlet> Too much fragmentation!!!! :)
17:40 Exaga> lol
18:02 Exaga> vpeter: in all seriousness I was wondering if people were so familiar with raspbian they'd run it on something other than a rpi
18:04 vpeter> Isn't this distro made special for RPi? In other regards it is nothing special.
18:05 Exaga> yes in a nutshell
18:55 jnettlet> At this point Raspbian is more an armv7 distribution than just Pi focused
20:54 Exaga> jnettlet: besides that, it's generally taken for granted by some establishments and individuals that you are using Raspbian
20:55 Exaga> like it's the only viable OS solution for the rpi platform
20:55 Exaga> thankfully solidrun aren't limited by such misconceptions :>
20:57 Exaga> limited/afflicted*
20:58 jnettlet> Really we are trying to use our success to push the chipmakers to do the right thing. Push patches to mainline and release documentation.
20:58 jnettlet> We aren't always successful, but that is a conversation that we constantly have with new designs
20:58 Exaga> ye upstream support is vital for future success
20:59 Exaga> i dare say the orange pi would have been more popular if the H3 had been supported 2-3 years ago
21:00 jnettlet> Yep. We are slowly educating hardware vendors on the benefits
21:00 jnettlet> Most likely
21:02 Exaga> don't take me up on this but you should see what the orange pi guys did to a slackware arm image built by them. it wasn't pretty
21:03 Exaga> mish-mash of every Linux OS you've ever seen
21:03 Exaga> it worked, after a fashion :S