On May 10, 2016 7:30 PM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > > On May 10, 2016 3:21 PM, "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> We do have initial pine64 support, I plan to improve it more for GA and > >> have a disk image for use. > > > > Great News! > > > > Tangentially: are there opinions emerging on the physical ruggedizability of > > 2GB Pine64 v. 1GB RPi3 (incl WiFi) for developing world education, and harsh > > environmental/ergonomic conditions, as more people start banging on both? > > I'm sure I've said it before, it's not high quality. My alpha board > arrived bent (still works somehow) but the hackaday review [1] sums up > my opinion quite well. This isn't a robust device, and with up to 2Gb > of RAM there's a lot more ARMv7 devices that offer better value for > money. At a max of 2Gb of RAM a 64 bit chip offers absolutely ZERO > advantage and it's built for a price and I'm sorry but "harsh > environment" is not anywhere in that. Honestly a BeagleBone would do > better and has much better build and likely better performance for not > much more price (yes, I do class double the price in this class as not > much more) > > [1] http://hackaday.com/2016/04/21/pine64-the-un-review/
Fascinating, Thanks! (Since I'm working with Haitians who cannot pay double the $35 price of RPi3...we'll be looking more seriously at ruggedizing the official Raspberry Pi 3 for now...and it's unofficial community support perhaps most important.) Knowing we cannot possibly prevent all failures, but rather hoping that field production use today...affects RPi4/5/6 as a family, increasingly growing up from rich-world gadgeteers' basements........to globally-relevant nanoservers operationalizable for a billion people who demand to be relevant.....even IF they will never in their lifetimes get a $15/hour minimum wage :-/ > >> Peter > >> > >> On 10 May 2016 18:44, "Adam Holt" <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> Not sure the 64-bit implications of this for RPi3 and Pine64, but FYI. > >>> > >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >>> From: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobin...@gmail.com> > >>> Date: May 10, 2016 1:34 PM > >>> Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64! > >>> To: <a...@lists.fedoraproject.org>, > >>> <devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org>, > >>> <annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org>, <second...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > >>> Cc: > >>> > >>>> The Fedora 24 Beta for aarch64 is here, on schedule for our planned June > >>>> final > >>>> release. For Beta we have added Cloud and Docker base images. > >>>> Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: > >>>> > >>>> - Get Fedora 24 Beta Server: make use of the very latest server-based > >>>> technologies available in the open source community > >>>> > >>>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Server/aarch64/ > >>>> > >>>> - Get Fedora 24 Beta Cloud: build scale-out computing and utilize the > >>>> next > >>>> generation of container deployment technology > >>>> > >>>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/CloudImages/aarch64/ > >>>> > >>>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/24_Beta/Docker/aarch64/images/ > >>>> > >>>> What is the Beta release? > >>>> ------------------------- > >>>> > >>>> The Beta release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 24's > >>>> editions in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by > >>>> the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs from the Alpha > >>>> version. When most of these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release > >>>> available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong > >>>> resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora > >>>> 24 is expected in June. We need your help to make Fedora 24 the best > >>>> yet. Please take some time to download and try out the Beta and make > >>>> sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a > >>>> bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the > >>>> experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. This is a great > >>>> opportunity for non-programmers to contribute back to fedora. Together, > >>>> we can make Fedora rock-solid. We have a culture of adding new features > >>>> to software and pushing fixes to the upstream developers at the same > >>>> time. This means your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but > >>>> Linux and free software on the whole. > >>>> > >>>> - <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/24/Schedule> > >>>> - <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report> > >>>> > >>>> Fedora-Wide Changes > >>>> ------------------- > >>>> > >>>> Under the hood, glibc has moved to 2.23. This update includes better > >>>> performance, increased security, bugfixes, improvements to POSIX > >>>> compliance, and additional locales. The new library is backwards > >>>> compatible with the version of glibc that was shipped in Fedora 23. > >>>> We've also updated the system compiler to GCC 6 and rebuilt all of our > >>>> packages with it, providing greater code optimization and improved > >>>> program error catching. > >>>> > >>>> Server > >>>> ------ > >>>> > >>>> Fedora 24 beta server edition has also been more streamlined. > >>>> Unnecessary > >>>> packages were removed and the installer has a smaller footprint. FreeIPA > >>>> 4.3, an integrated security information management solution is now > >>>> included. The installation of replicas is streamlined by adding a > >>>> replica promotion method for new installs. A new topology plugin has > >>>> also been added to this version of FreeIPA that automatically manages > >>>> new replication segment creation. An effective replica topology > >>>> visualization tool is now available in the webUI. > >>>> > >>>> Cloud > >>>> ----- > >>>> > >>>> We are working hard to make Fedora the best platform for containerized > >>>> applications, from base Fedora container images to a full-featured > >>>> platform as a service to run and manage them. To meet this goal, we are > >>>> packaging OpenShift Origin so it is easy to deploy. 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