On 19/06/15 23:10, Mark Campbell wrote:
I'd be willing to bet that a NOOBS image would garner wider acceptance of RedSleeve, despite the "elite" target market. And wider acceptance will likely == more devs/helpers/testers. Couldn't be a bad thing ;)
I don't think the target market for RedSleeve is "elite". It just isn't for users that need hand holding and feel out of their depth when having to use dd, tar, ifconfig/ip and yum on the command line and sorting out the most basic configuration tasks themselves.
As for your idea that it might lead to more developers/helpers/testers, realistically, people who aren't up to such a basic standard of Linux usage aren't typically going to be able to help with most of those things. This isn't intended to come across as elitist - it is merely a statement of the obvious, that the few of us maintaining it don't really have enough spare hours in a day to help with generic issues that aren't specific to RS but would cause the user the same problem on Fedora or EL on x86.
Having said that, none of this is a reason to make getting things up and running more difficult. If that can be achieved in a consistent and uniform way, then that's awesome. Unfortunately, that's really difficult when most of the hardware is very different, up to and including the bootloaders and available working kernels. Just look at the situation with Fedora ARM - they flat out refuse to even consider supporting any hardware that isn't supported by the mainline kernel, and have dropped support for everything before ARMv7 in order to make the support scope manageable. CentOS are doing the same thing with their armv7hl build. In that regard, RS supports far greater range of hardware, but the price of this is that the user is left to their own devices to figure out out how to get the RS userspace running with whatever kernel their device shipped with.
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