Paul Wise dijo [Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 10:14:34AM +0800]: > (...) > > On a related topic, what would it take to make the Pine Debian > > installs more nicely packaged, like the Raspbian installs? (Thanks, > > Gunnar!) > > There are too many different SBCs to make individual images for each > platform a viable strategy. I think the only reason there are RPi > images is that the hardware is popular and the community around it > expects available images rather than running an installer on-device.
Thanks for the explicit mention! However, the fact you singled me out by name gives part of the answer -- And while I completely agree with what Paul said and would have written the same (and that's the reason I'm answering to his mail rather than to yours), I think this should be said explicitly: The Raspberry images are *not* official Debian images. Yes, they are as-close-as-it-gets-to-being-so, but they are just a convenience service run by an individual DD, on his hardware, hosted on his own. You should *not* trust my images as much as you trust official Debian projects (I promise not to have trojanized the builds... But should you trust me? Or my computer?) Anyway, I think it makes sense to ship built images for major, widely available hardware. And if the images didn't need non-free firmware to begin the boot process, I'd probably be pushing for them to become official Debian builds!
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