[sf-lug] RPi3 distro recommendation

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 06/05/2017 08:30 AM, Akkana Peck wrote:
>> On 06/04/2017 12:51 PM, acohen36 wrote:
>>> Any good recommendations for a user-friendly Linux distro to go
>>> onto a Raspberry Pi 3's microSD card??
>>>
>>> The current default one I've used is a "properly" configured Raspbian
>>> [ ... ]   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.
> Bobbie Sellers writes:
>>      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'm confused. Isn't Raspbian based on Debian, not Ubuntu? And
> Raspbian uses its own desktop (called Pixel, based on LXDE). So
> Ubuntu's support or non-support of RPi, or of Unity, should make no
> difference to someone using Raspbian. It only matters if you were
> thinking of switching the RPi from Raspbian to Ubuntu and switching
> to the Unity desktop. In which case, well ... don't. :-)
>
>          ...Akkana
     Ms.Peck,
     Aaron was asking for a recommendation and I was not talking
about Raspbian.
     He does run Raspbian already and is, I am sure, aware of its
development chain. My main contribution was that he needed
to ask John Strazzarino who is as far as I am aware the most
experienced user of Raspberry Pi hard and softwares who
attends our meetings

     I am unsure of the status of Raspberry support from Ubuntu.
     It seems to be supported but that may be an illusion caused
by the contents of the FAQ about such support that I found
after the meeting.

     Bobbie Sellers .
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