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Nitpicking, but there is no inherent quality about "open-source" that makes software support the Pi.
by BoringCode 10y ago
Nitpicking, 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.