Re: Diversity - good or bad ?

On 1/11/25 2:50 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:00:04 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    So, for now, Manjaro and some Fedora. No one has yet made a clean
    Just Works port of Fedora for the Pi-5 alas ... something's WEIRD
    about that unit. They should drop it and make a "Pi4-Ultra" instead
    with a peppier version of that chip.

 There's a new Pi 5 version with 16GB of RAM. It's not clear what the use
case is. Windows on ARM?

   There's clearly something very convoluted about the
   way the CPU and maybe some peripherial chips start
   up on the Pi5. You could run many Linux distros on
   Pi's up thru the Pi4. Then ... the factory Deb deriv
   is pretty much IT unless you wanna suffer a lot.
   If you've ever watched a Pi update, note ALL the
   damned messages about special fix-ups and kernel
   hacks - I mean there's LOTS of them. The BCM2712
   do NOT boot smooth like earlier versions. I'll
   still say the Pi3s were the "most generally useful".
   As for the 16gb ... well, if it's not TOO much more
   expensive, may as well have it. However 4gb has
   always been more than enough for anything I've
   wanted to do with a Pi. Even the ancient 250mb
   ones worked OK with Linux - though I never tried
   OpenSUSE/KDE on a Pi-1.
   I did turn one into a muzak system though - 4 hour
   loops of 'mall/elevator music' from the 70s that
   would switch once a month. Ran for like a dozen
   years ... probably still is, unless somebody finally
   found where I hid it and smashed the thing with
   a hammer  :-)