> But why, if you have a choice would you diverge. Why not install bash on the solaris machine. You diverge because you're designing a product and you want to.

> But why, if you have a choice would you diverge. Why not install bash on the solaris machine. You diverge because you're designing a product and you want to. (The Raspberry Pi desktop, for example, is available to run on non-linux platforms; there is a continuum for them.) There are plenty of Ubuntu-based Linux distros with diverging requirements; which ones do you not approve of? They have their own intent to develop a distro with a particular focus; so does Raspberry Pi. If you disregard intent as a factor, sure; there's no justification for any of those distros. But then if you disregard intent as a factor there's no inherent justification for _any_ distros at all. > So, at least where I live and the people I talk to, they are basically hacker devices. OK. But we should probably stipulate that the Foundation intends them to also be used by people who want to learn computing on a very low budget, and that is why they have chosen to create their own (reconfigurable) OS. > Also, note the questions in: https://old.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/ https://old.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/ And? Reddit is not for people under 13, for one thing.