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 |