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The author says a lot of traditional software won't run on the Raspberry Pi, because it uses ARM. Maybe that's true for proprietary software. But the Pi can ru
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
The author says a lot of traditional software won't run on the Raspberry Pi, because it uses ARM.
Maybe that's true for proprietary software. But the Pi can run any open-source project you throw at it. I used one as an (admittedly slow) development box for a while.
- BoringCode 10y agoNitpicking, but there is no inherent quality about "open-source" that makes software support the Pi.
- Abekkus 10y agoThat inherent quality is the ability to compile ARM binaries from that openly-available source code.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoExactly. Because Debian is a collection of open-source software, it was able to be retargeted for ARMv6 and the Raspberry Pi, in the form of Raspbian. Some open-source software can't work on ARM, but it's in the minority. Code in high-level languages is generally not tied to a particular processor architecture.