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The software argument only really concerns the hobbyist/"maker" crowd. No professionally-designed device will be using Raspbian/Armbian/etc (or any kind of gene
by Nextgrid 3y ago
The software argument only really concerns the hobbyist/"maker" crowd. No professionally-designed device will be using Raspbian/Armbian/etc (or any kind of general-purpose Linux distro). It'll be a Yocto/buildroot custom image or maybe customized OpenWrt - things designed to operate as an embedded, immutable "appliance" instead of a general-purpose distro.
- geerlingguy 3y agoHeh... there are soooo many 'industrial' devices that just have some files added to a default Pi OS, Debian, etc. image. A lot of times the smaller hardware-driven companies (who may charge $3000+ for a Pi-integrated solution) have very robust hardware... and software that I'm surprised works at all.
- yetihehe 3y agoThere's a lot of companies that have a combination of bad hardware and bad software and only small amount of those with either good hardware or software.
- aa-jv 3y agoThere's no reason a 'professional' company can't build their product around Armbian and ship it. Yocto is not as great as it seems. You can go a long way with stock Armbian.