[OZAPRS] Rasbian

Andrew Rich vk4tec at tech-software.net
Thu Jun 30 16:34:41 AEST 2016


I use rasbian because all the magazines talk about it and the big install download comes with rasbian

Any one good at rsync ?

Using ssh 

Odd port

Andrew

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Andrew Rich
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> On 30 Jun 2016, at 13:47, Kim VK5FJ <vk5fj at hawtin.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
>> On 29/06/16 20:38, Andrew Rich wrote:
>> Ubuntu ?
>> 
>> Why
>> 
>> All the tutorials are about raspian
> 
> I think you will find the original rationale was that most raspberry pis would be deployed headless. Despite that the project aim was to build a BBC Micro/Commodore64 like experience for our youth...
> 
> Ubuntu focuses mostly on the desktop and GUI apps.
> 
> while a fair share will be used to plug into a TV or similar, I expect a whole lot more will be functioning as embedded IO.
> 
> Would be interesting to see the proportion of the downloads to different distributions, versus what is actually running im the wild.
> 
> Ultimately Ubuntu is for modern laptops. It is no longer a good fit for small memory machines, IMHO.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Kim VK5FJ
> 
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