09-23-2016, 02:06 AM
(09-23-2016, 01:31 AM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: You might be interested in knowing that I spoke with terra854 today and he may be taking up the challenge to get openSuSE going again ( with the xenial image as base ).
If I would think about providing any Linux image I would use Armbian's build system in a stripped down variant (since only automated builds ensure that mistakes doesn't happen and the most important part when baking OS images for SBC are ruling out issues with u-boot and kernel). There's also a lot I don't like with Ubuntu and especially Debian but providing anything else for SBCs is pretty much useless IMO if the target audience has not that much experiences.
The reason is simple: Raspbian. There are zillions of tutorials mentioning Debian syntax and using OpenSuse you're lost when you read 'apt' but should use 'zypper' instead. It makes not that much sense and as already written: less OS images are better for a platform (that's why Raspberries are where they are, not because the hardware would be worth a look but due to a large community that can rely on software that works identical everywhere)
Anyway: The problem with the 'style' OS images are maintained here is just: all the hard work has been done months ago (2D acceleration and HW accelerated video decoding to name that what most of the people seem to be interested in for whatever reasons). It's available, it can be used, it's just that people don't know about and get OS images where the stuff is not even included. Instead they are served with fairy tales from Mali land (see LCD support, see the numerous questions about 'acceleration' in the past). The problem is called ignorance and some of the moderators here were and are heavily involved.