It just struck me that I did not post this to the optimim forum. I can't tell whether it is a better fit for General or Chat. Hopefully it will result in technical details on installation, in which case General is the place to move this. On Mar 4, 2012 10:39 PM, "Tracy Harms" <kalei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll be getting one of the Raspberry Pi computers as soon as I can. The > most refined OS for that computer is Fedora, with Arch Linux ARM just > showing up. > > Has anybody been using J on Fedora? > > My understanding is that Fedora only works with software that is built > specifically for Fedora, so source code is needed, so the candidate J > version is 7.01. I'd like to know if I'm wrong in thinking this. If I'm not > in error, I'd like to know whether such building seems easy or not. If it's > not easy, I'd like to understand what count as impediments. > > The target audience for Raspberry Pi is education, and I imagine KEI would > have wanted to see J among the languages that are readily used on a > computer with these aims. Several programming languages are being included > with its stock Fedora installation. > > Regardless of its target audience, it has been attracting phenomenal > attention among computer hobbyists. Having J work on it sooner, rather than > later, gives a decent chance of catching some attention within this > adventurous group as they explore the capabilities of this machine. > > My personal interest is to have J work on an ultra-portable device with no > need for internet connection. > > -- > Tracy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
