On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 14:17:52 -0500 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> Only then could I load up the software I needed to do the job I > bought 3 of these SBC's to do. Not even the first user can "sudo apt > install" anything that is not in the supplied repo list. So even he > cannot actually put a raspberry pi 3b to work doing much but browsing > the web or doing email. Don't forget that most of the midget computers are ARM-based, that the ARM architecture bears no resemblance to that of the i386/amd64, and that porting software isn't generally just a matter of setting a few compiler switches. Many ARMs don't have a numeric coprocessor, the original ARM2 being contemporary with the *real* i386, which needed an i387. The result is that ARM software lags behind that for the popular PC architectures, and that there are many fewer packages in the ARM repositories than for the traditional architectures. -- Joe
