The other key spec to the Raspberry Pi is that it is ARM rather than x86 based.
On May 31, 2012, at 16:12, Cameron Shorter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I've been asked whether OSGeo-Live would run on Raspberry Pi, to be used as a > teaching device a. > Raspberry Pi is a $25 credit card size computer. It runs Debian and only has > 256 Meg of RAM. http://www.raspberrypi.org > > I've CCed the OSGeo-Live email list, as I expect there will be many on the > list with an interest, and probably a few opinions too. > > The challenge will be the size of RAM. Up to version 5.0, we ran OSGeo-Live > with 512 Meg of RAM, but with version 5.5 we discovered that some of the Java > applications required more RAM, and we recommend at least 768 Meg RAM, and > preferably 1 Gig. > The problem will be all the java based applications, which are RAM intensive. > > You could potentially run OSGeo-Live, without invoking the java based > applications and there are a C based applications for most, if not all the > tasks you would likely to be teaching. > You could test this be running OSGeo-Live in a Virtual Machine, and limiting > the size of the RAM in the Virtual Machine to 256 Meg of RAM. > You can see approximate RAM usage, and core language for many of our > applications in the following spreadsheet: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc#gid=13 > > OSGeo-Live is based upon Xubuntu (which is a small version of Ubuntu), and I > note from the faq that Ubuntu is not supported by Ubuntu. That might be a > problem. > What you may need to do is start with a Debian Squeeze distribution, then > execute the OSGeo-Live build process, probably with a few tweaks, to build a > custom OSGeo-Live. In this process, you might also only select applications > which will run within the 256 Meg limit. > > > > > > > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source > http://www.lisasoft.com > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
