[kwlug-disc] Fw: Raspberry pi 4

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 3:16 PM Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> The advantage of a Pi isn't the performance, but the popularity.
>
> I've owned another non-pi ARM board, which required it's own out-of-tree
> patches and basically became ewaste once newer products came along.
>
> Pis are very popular, leading to a lot of eyes and hands getting things
> upstream. A lot of Pi images are widely cross-compatible between old & new
> devices, as well as variants (Zero, etc). There's also projects like the
> Pi4 UEFI loader that let generic arm distros be used, meaning I don't need
> to try to find a specific Pi version of whatever OS I want to use (Fedora
> Server, in my case). I can download and run an installer just like on any
> x86 system.
>

I agree with Chris.

Once I found Ubuntu for ARM runs on the Pi, and installed it, I never
looked back.
No more Raspbian or anything else. Just the regular Ubuntu Server that I
run on my servers.

-- 
Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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