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hmm.....strange that firefox is being put up on a v6 arch. The current generation of boards (such as firefly) is based on ARMv7-A. a much more powerful and matu
by hitlin37 12y ago
hmm.....strange that firefox is being put up on a v6 arch. The current generation of boards (such as firefly) is based on ARMv7-A. a much more powerful and matured arch. Next, v8 is coming up with 64 bit support.
- Narishma 12y agoNot strange at all. Raspberry Pi is vastly more popular than any other competitor, perhaps even all competitors combined. It doesn't really matter that it's slower or that it uses an old instruction set.
- hitlin37 12y agowon't affect the performance for checking emails or messages. for task such as browsing and streaming over mobile, v7 is much more optimized.
- Narishma 12y agoMy point is that it doesn't matter that it's slow. What's more important is it gives them access to the huge Raspberry Pi community.
- tdicola 12y agoThere are nearly 4 million Pi's sold now vs. a few hundred thousand BeagleBone Black boards (which use ARMv7). If you only have limited resources to get your OS running on one embedded hobbyist board, I think the choice to use the Pi makes sense.
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- fabrice_d 12y agoNo, this is not based on Raspbian anymore, but on a ICS android port.
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoI deleted my comment since it was based on obsolete information. Thank you for correcting me.