> I wouldn't have said off-topic, I treat my two Pis as if they were > running standard Debian and very rarely bump into anything > Pi-specific, despite their fairly exotic hardware. I try things out on > my HP Intel workstation running sid, and can normally transfer results > directly to a Pi on 32 or 64 bit ARM.
Running Debian on single-board computers like Raspberry Pis is very much on topic here: such hardware is not "exotic" in my book. I have been happily running Debian on "Pis" (Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Nano Pi, Odroid) since somewhere around 2013, and I really mean "Debian". [ I guess I started down that path when I started "running" Debian in a chroot (within OpenWRT) on my Wl-700gE, sometime around 2007 maybe? ] Admittedly, the initial installation typically required non-Debian elements (e.g. because there is no Debian Install yet when I got the SBC. I typically started with some pre-built non-Debian U-Boot and kernel, then either cloned an existing root filesystem (from one of my other Pis) or built a new one with something like debootstrap). > The Pi variant is orders of magnitude closer to real Debian than > Ubuntu and other derivatives. It's really only installation which is > significantly different, and with which users of real Debian will not > be able to help. Indeed, tho in the majority of cases, the question is about problems during the installation. 🙁 === Stefan
