[sf-lug] RPi3 distro recommendation

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 06/04/2017 12:51 PM, acohen36 wrote:
>
> Hey all, Am here at Cafe Enchante and wish to pose a question to the 
> group; Any good recommendations for a user-friendly Linux distro to go 
> onto a Raspberry Pi 3's microSD card??
> There's a complete list at http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions
>
> The current default one I've used is a "properly" configured Raspbian 
> distro onto a 32GB microSD as default /boot and full /(root) partitions
> (no swap or /home parts.) Bobbie S just mentioned that Ubuntu is 
> discontinuing RPi support and I'm not interested in using a full 
> multimedia-center or server-type distro. FYI, it's more for one of 
> them there "Winders" users.
> TYIA,
> -A
>
>
>
> acohen36 at sdf.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

     Well I thought I had read that ARM and Raspberry support was 
discontinued along
with Ubuntu's Unity which was a phone DE interface actually.   I went 
looking for
confirmation but I could not find it.  I noted though that the Raspberry 
Pi Flavor
Maker still list Unity as a possible flavor which may merely indicate 
slowness of
updates to the Raspberry Pi FAQ.
     And I further learned that aside from Unity and Ubuntu Phone 
layoffs other
large layoffs have been taking place from 30-60 % which are attempts to 
reduce
expenses and recover from the losses related to the Phone project.

     Sorry Aaron if I misapprehended something I read.

     Bobbie Sellers

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