On 06/11/13 22:19, Dan Fish wrote:
I think another aspect that should not be ignored is the potential
roadmap for such arm devices. Admittedly I'm not aware of the
Raspberry Pi's future direction, but in general more and more such arm
devices seem to be in the offing. The raspberry pi itself has captured
a stunningly large market share and surely Ubuntu should be trying to
get a distro out at the start of the project, rather than being
latecomers to Raspberry Pi V2.
I don't expect a revision of the Pi that changes the Broadcom chip or
anything else in any significant way. It doesn't need to be faster for
what it is, and so many people have made cases and mounting things for
it and expect the GPIO pins to be exactly where they are etc. I think
like the Arduino it is something that doesn't really need an upgrade,
being stable is more important, so you can replace half a classroom's
worth of them in a few years and expect it to not be different to the
other half.
Unity performance notwithstanding, ubuntu server has a lot of
potential on such a device (and IMHO is server is the jewel in the
ubuntu crown)
Regards
Dan
Disclaimer - ubuntu server is in the roadmap for the NHS spine v2 (
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/nhs_drops_oracle_for_riak/) <-
sorry for the El Reg link, but it's a brief and pretty accurate
summary of future plans
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