Hi Alan, Please add "make Python not suck on Raspberry Pi" to your list of requests. Execution time for python is so bad I had to rewrite a number of my tools as shell scripts. Since many tools in Ubuntu are based on Python, I expect that'll be on your list anyway.
Hopefully that's just an issue with the Raspbian builds and not an inherent issue with the processor. :) Regards, Tyler On 2013-11-07 00:52, Alan Bell wrote: > from the pitch . . . > > "Rasbian is a great operating platform for it, the LXDE desktop is fine, > the Wayland demo was brilliant and loads of cool projects are happening > based on the Pi. We still want Ubuntu on it though. We are using it in > embedded projects, it is also turning up in things like the OpenERP Point > of Sale kit, situations where it doesn't need a responsive user interface > (or a user interface at all). It would be great to know that all the > libraries we are using on it are the same versions we are using on other > computers that are running Ubuntu. " > > Basically when writing code on my laptop to deploy on the pi I want it to > be the same environment. Now I could run Debian Wheezy on my laptop of > course, but I am not going to do that. I am running Ubuntu on my laptop and > I want to run Ubuntu on the Pi. Seeing Ubuntu Desktop with Mir and Unity 8 > would be kind of sweet, but the project isn't a failure if that doesn't > work out - and the Unity desktop might well not run well on the Pi, we are > well below the minimum recommended specification. It will be fun to try, > but I don't want to set expectations too high. Having Ubuntu server as an > expectation is probably deliverable, going above and beyond that would be a > bonus. > > Alan. > > On 06/11/13 21:14, Nigel Verity wrote: >> Alan >> >> I'm all for maximising the choice of OS that can be run on a Pi, but your >> Indigogo pitch doesn't make clear what advantages Ubuntu server with no >> desktop will bring, compared to the existing Debian derivative which >> already provides LXDE. The pitch also gives the impression that if it >> does eventually prove possible to get Unity running on top of "Pibuntu" >> then the performance is not going to be up to much. >> >> Please don't take this as pouring cold water on your plans, more a >> pointer for enhancing the FAQs. >> >> Regards >> >> Nige >> >> > > > -- > Libertus Solutions > http://libertus.co.uk > > > -- "Copyright is a bargain, not property. We agreed not to copy because they agreed it would only be for a short period of time. They have broken their end of the bargain; we are now breaking ours." -- Russell Nelson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
