They can, just need correct drivers. We have mainline Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu for them now.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Don’t go for a Pi. They don’t run stock Linux anyway.
I would get a board from pine64
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Currently, and I could be wrong, the alternative to a Pi 4 now would be a Pine64’s Quartz64 Model B. A Star64 might be interesting, but that’s RISC-V so who knows what OS you could boot on it currently and if it would even be stable.
Plus with the Quartz64 Model B, who knows if you’ll able to get a good case for it. There’s the $28 “Model B” ALUMINUM WATERPROOF ENCLOSURE, but, eh, no thanks. There’s the open enclosure, but that’s also a no for me. I want a case I can hide the device itself, the cables, put a heatsink and fan on, be able to use an SSD with USB connect and connect a power supply all stuffed in a case. Which you can find plenty of for Raspberry Pi’s.
Not to mention the Pi 5 isn’t even out yet, and it’s entirely possible it’ll be better than the Quartz64 Model B, on top of having a ton of accessories. Plus, I can Pi up practically any Pi at the Microcenter or similar store near me as opposed to having to pay for good shipping.
I’m totally for having alternatives to the Pi, heck I might pick up a Quartz64 Model B if I can find a case, but a lot of alternatives don’t have the same support and accessories the Pis do.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Define “stock Linux.”
andreluis034@lm.put.tf 9 months ago
I guess he means that raspberry pi doesn’t run a mainline kernel
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Precisely. You can’t just boot up any arm image
mara@pawb.social 9 months ago
This is true with ARM in general. There’s no “standard Linux” to boot because every board needs its own device tree and set of core kernel modules for detecting important things like local storage. It’s fairly intractable due to how different the hardware is.
Username@feddit.de 9 months ago
Wow, I was sure Raspberry Pi were pretty good about mainline support, especially since multiple distros support the platform.
Software support is still very good compared to pretty much every other arm board.