John Hasler <jhas...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Rob wrote: >> I don't know much about the raspberry. >> I think it is sort of standard Linux, > > Raspbian is just Debian, recompiled for the particular ARM cpu the > Raspberry uses and with drivers for the Broadcom video added. The > recompilation permits the use of hardware floating point, which is > different in the Raspberry and the ARM cpus that Debian supports. > Debian also supports ARM cpus with no hardware floating point and that > version of Debian runs on the Raspberry but is slower.
What is more important in this case, is the mechanism it uses for starting daemons, for creating device nodes, etc. >From what I have read up to now, it appears it users a classical (System-V like) init, and udev. Good. (always keep Lennart Poettering away from your system!) _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
