Promoting support of mga on Raspberry Pi and other boards
Posted: Apr 25th, '21, 13:09
Hi there.
I know many of you own and like to "play" or/and use different ARM boards.
Personally I have a soft spot for Raspberry Pi which in my case is used for years as
a local web server for development tests, backup server (currently desktop and Sailfish phone)
and also cosy couch browsing on TV with very obsolete browser.
It's also a great sysadmin learning area for me with a lot of help from all over net and you of course.
Where we already are:
We have excellent level of ARM package support.
We have a git for building different ARM images.
We even host some of those 64 and 32 bit images.
What we need now is documentation. So I created a very humble Wiki skeleton for a start. BTW if you think it has a potential I can move it to the proper Wiki place.
And we also need more tests and bugfixes.
My wish is to promote our ARM images to a more visible level. Several distributions already have different level of support for various architectures.
If this gains some proper traction and of course council support we can go even further and make images for download from our web pages.
I think this can also attract new contributors.
So. WDYT? Are you interested to contribute in some way?
Have a great day,
Filip.
I know many of you own and like to "play" or/and use different ARM boards.
Personally I have a soft spot for Raspberry Pi which in my case is used for years as
a local web server for development tests, backup server (currently desktop and Sailfish phone)
and also cosy couch browsing on TV with very obsolete browser.
It's also a great sysadmin learning area for me with a lot of help from all over net and you of course.
Where we already are:
We have excellent level of ARM package support.
We have a git for building different ARM images.
We even host some of those 64 and 32 bit images.
What we need now is documentation. So I created a very humble Wiki skeleton for a start. BTW if you think it has a potential I can move it to the proper Wiki place.
And we also need more tests and bugfixes.
My wish is to promote our ARM images to a more visible level. Several distributions already have different level of support for various architectures.
If this gains some proper traction and of course council support we can go even further and make images for download from our web pages.
I think this can also attract new contributors.
So. WDYT? Are you interested to contribute in some way?
Have a great day,
Filip.