04-09-2016, 05:35 PM
(04-09-2016, 05:16 PM)androsch Wrote:(04-09-2016, 01:39 PM)wolfrock Wrote: For me the disappointment is the lack of viable OS. It MAY be a kickstart as has been pointed but it was advertised as supporting xbmc - and it doesnt, and linux, and it doesnt - yet. Pleased to see there are dedicated guys working in the background to bring that to fruition. But to me, no usable OS is like selling a car with no engine.
You are right by mentioning the Pine64 kickstarter guys mentioned a lot of OS and software to be running on the Pine, but most of them are still developing for the Pine's need. But assuming they just focus at the moment on the shipping of hardware to get the boards to the backers, so there will be more support also from the Pine guys (hopefully) towards software development.
I got my Pine on April 1st (no joke) and was also a little bit frustrated at the beginning because of lacking OS and 'out-of-the-box' software, but hey guys, the PI3 (and i own 4 PIs in total) came out 4 years after they started and even still with 100MBit only, so we all should give the Pine guys respect for the hardware and support everybody doing hard work on the software side. If everybody buying a Pine would support the (mainly volunteers!) OS guys with just 1$, they can build a lot of software
As far as i see in this forum there are a lot of promising projects for the Pine and i'm sure, there will be more and more 'perfect' software for it.
Well said. Many newcomers don't grasp the concept of open source, community driven software. The Raspberry Pi and Kickstarter have brought a whole host of great hardware to the world, but along with that come the people who probably have little business fiddling in the OSS community. Kickstarter especially. Some people have no idea what they are buying.
