CyberAbc 290 Report post Posted May 24, 2013 The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora operating system has a bit of a checkered history with the Raspberry Pi. It was originally the recommended operating system for the device before being stripped from the Raspberry Pi Foundation's downloads page, replaced by a version of Debian optimized for the Pi's ARMv6 chip. But Fedora is back on the Pi in the form of a new build developed by the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology in Toronto. It's called "Pidora." "It is based on a brand new build of Fedora for the ARMv6 architecture with greater speed and includes packages from the Fedora 18 package set," the Pidora team said today. The recommended OS for the Raspberry Pi these days is Raspbian, a version of Debian optimized for the ARMv6-based Broadcom BCM2835 chip's floating point unit, which as we've written is "important in robotics projects and various other types of math-intensive applications." Pidora likewise takes advantage of the floating point unit in the Pi. Nearly all of the thousands of packages in the official Fedora repository were rebuilt for Pidora. Pidora also comes with C, Python, and Perl programming environments included on the SD card image. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
