Fedora 37 To Offer Official Support On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices

[mercster]

Nice news! I've always stuck with Raspbian (or whatever they're calling it these days) but might choose Fedora next time I lug my 8G RPi 4B out.

I don't know why people are so sour... RPi4 is the latest generation, it only came out 3 years ago. Not everyone goes ham and installs dozens of unofficial distros. I used to do that... when I thought it was fun, back in the late 90s/early 2000s. Now I usually stick with large vanilla Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora, because I'm done futzing with distros and wacky configs and building all my own packages with -O99 -funroll-loops and overclocking and all the puttering around. I need my computer so I can get stuff done these days. :-)

[pal666]

Yeah, I thought Fedora's uniqueness was that they are always quick to support the latest & greatest in Linux land?

Meanwhile, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS even supports the 2GB RAM version of the RPi4 by activating ZSWAP on it by default.

And it even has the official blessing of the Raspberry Pi Foundation [what an honor! ]:

the difference between fedora and ubuntu is fedora is upstream-first. and no, it doesn't mean rpi foundation, it means linux upstream

[tuxd3v]

There was a time were I thought that ARM would become the next big thing in desktop..
But nowadays, I am waiting for Riscv..

However that are very niche boards available for ARM, but at prices of super machines, not reflecting that ARM is not a performance thing, but instead a lower power consumption option..

[SWY1985]

Just a chapter fedora project:

🔗 How To Test

• Buy a Raspberry Pi 4 (if you can)

This is the situation: it is really difficult to find a raspberry on the market and the prices are too high.. sigh..

Raspberry Pi 400 is still easy to find. If you want to run a desktop OS on a Raspberry Pi, the Pi 400 is perfect.
Same hardware.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Did they used tow-boot.org or rpi4-uefi.dev?

[hamishmb]

To be fair, it's not Fedora's fault - they were waiting for drivers to be upstreamed.

[OneTimeShot]

How old is the Pi 4 now? And Fedora is just now saying they officially support them... Barn door. Horses. Gone.

(I don't care about the politics on why.)

There's been an unofficial Fedora distribution for years. Why do you care about official support?

[Linuxxx]

It’s still pretty generally the case that projects are targeting armhf for broader rpi compatibility.

If you want an rpi4 optimised system you still quite often have to DIY depending on what you’re trying to do.

Or, you know, could just take the easy route and install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which already delivers in the form of an ARM64 image optimized for the RPi4:

https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi

[scottishduck]

How old is the Pi 4 now? And Fedora is just now saying they officially support them... Barn door. Horses. Gone.

(I don't care about the politics on why.)

It’s still pretty generally the case that projects are targeting armhf for broader rpi compatibility.

If you want an rpi4 optimised system you still quite often have to DIY depending on what you’re trying to do.

[Linuxxx]

How old is the Pi 4 now? And Fedora is just now saying they officially support them... Barn door. Horses. Gone.

(I don't care about the politics on why.)

Yeah, I thought Fedora's uniqueness was that they are always quick to support the latest & greatest in Linux land?

Meanwhile, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS even supports the 2GB RAM version of the RPi4 by activating ZSWAP on it by default.

And it even has the official blessing of the Raspberry Pi Foundation [what an honor! ]:

“It’s great to see a certified Ubuntu Desktop release that includes support for the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4, giving developers all over the world access to the most affordable development desktop environment.”

Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading

https://ubuntu.com/blog/whats-new-for-raspberry-pi-ubuntu-22-04-lts