Raspbian support?

snickerdoodle general
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Howdy everyone,

If this is a newbish question I apologize in advance: will the snickerdoodle black be able to run Raspbian? I plan on having my snickerdoodle replace my Raspberry Pi 2 B, however that may be somewhat complicated by the ability or lack thereof to run Raspbian.

If not, I can definitely live with Ubuntu, but I am curious if that is necessary.
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We wouldn't know exactly what is involved in making Raspbian work on a non-RPi platform that but the answer is likely no.

In actuality there are a lot of RPi users that would rather be running Ubuntu and it's only been recently that this has become supported: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi

Keep in mind that the snickerdoodle has some unique hardware that the RPi definitely does not so we are trying to keep the linux OS support as mainstream as possible to ease the learning curve.

-Jamil



On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 12:35:38 PM UTC-7, Sean Blakley wrote:
Howdy everyone,

If this is a newbish question I apologize in advance: will the snickerdoodle black be able to run Raspbian? I plan on having my snickerdoodle replace my Raspberry Pi 2 B, however that may be somewhat complicated by the ability or lack thereof to run Raspbian.

If not, I can definitely live with Ubuntu, but I am curious if that is necessary.
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I definitely understand the need for mainstream OS support. I also personally prefer Ubuntu, and I was actually not aware that it was supported by the Pi until I read your link. I had always assumed that it didn't mesh well with the ARM architecture, which is why I was so surprised to hear that it ran on the snickerdoodle. Given that information I will probably end up migrating my Pi to Ubuntu as well. I admit I'm a bit of a linux newb, so this is all pretty new to me.

On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 2:42:42 PM UTC-5, weath...@krtkl.com wrote:
We wouldn't know exactly what is involved in making Raspbian work on a non-RPi platform that but the answer is likely no.

In actuality there are a lot of RPi users that would rather be running Ubuntu and it's only been recently that this has become supported: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi

Keep in mind that the snickerdoodle has some unique hardware that the RPi definitely does not so we are trying to keep the linux OS support as mainstream as possible to ease the learning curve.

-Jamil



On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 12:35:38 PM UTC-7, Sean Blakley wrote:
Howdy everyone,

If this is a newbish question I apologize in advance: will the snickerdoodle black be able to run Raspbian? I plan on having my snickerdoodle replace my Raspberry Pi 2 B, however that may be somewhat complicated by the ability or lack thereof to run Raspbian.

If not, I can definitely live with Ubuntu, but I am curious if that is necessary.