Thanks Troy. That's some pretty impressive 3rd party referencing. Are you writing from Buckingham Palace :) ?
I appreciate the links. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Although RedSleeve is currently the only RHEL clone with a release, there > are two others groups working on one. > > Centos: > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > > > Yor Linux > http://www.yorlinux.org/ > http://mirror.yorlinux.org/pub/linux/yor/7testing/armv7/iso/ > > The CentOS release is slowly coming along, but is still working through > package issues. It is more of a side project for the main CentOS > developers, and as such goes through bursts of productivity as the > developers have free time. > But, when it is done, it will have the CentOS developers and > infrastructure behind it, which may make it quite solid. > > The Yor Linux release is pretty much done, but the main (only) developer > decided to not fully release it since he feels it wouldn't be wise to do > that just before RHEL 7.2 is released. Development for the armv7 arch of > Yor Linux is equal to it's other arches (i386 and x86_64). > A downside is that Yor Linux as a project is still unmature and has a very > weak infrastructure (website, distribution, maillists) > > The RedSleeve project is pretty impressive. They made a RHEL6 clone on > the Rasberry Pi. So it works on armv5. For them to build RHEL 7 on armv7 > was pretty easy compared to that. They don't have the numbers or > infrastructure of CentOS, but they do have enough distribution channels to > get their packages everywhere. They have also been around for several > years, and looks like they will continue to be around for a while. > > Troy > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pat Riehecky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The folks over at http://www.redsleeve.org/ are active on the ARM port. >> >> Pat >> >> >> On 11/04/2015 10:56 AM, Nathan Moore wrote: >> >> Have any of you-all considered replacing (student) linux workstations >> with small single-board arm systems (eg a Raspberry Pi2 or TI's >> Beagleboard)? In terms of unit cost and power consumption they seem like >> an attractive solution for run of the mill, interactive work. >> >> Related question, is there a fork of SL/RHEL that comes precompiled for >> arm? >> >> Nathan >> >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> Nathan Moore >> Mississippi River and 44th Parallel >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> >> >> -- >> Pat Riehecky >> Scientific Linux developer >> >> Fermi National Accelerator Laboratorywww.fnal.govwww.scientificlinux.org >> >> > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nathan Moore Mississippi River and 44th Parallel - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
