Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Java ME or SE? Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 11:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 11:51:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="15202"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19co4Tz91TjJfPCNNX5sPICJ3gmx/N3e44=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:F6NR94dHjIpMlM1jcPvbnMouvNU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30324 On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:11:10 -0800, Roedy Green wrote: > What are all the other pi folk using? > As an OS? Raspbian, mostly - its Debian Linux Stable (Wheezy) ported to the MPU chip, which contains both an ARM core and a GPU with 512MB RAM piggy-backed onto it. The only real oddity is the boot system, which is two stage: the GPU loads and runs the phase 1 bootstrap from a FAT partition and this loads Raspbian into the ARM mpu from the main ext3 partition. Apparently that's the easiest way to boot anything on that chip. AFAIK all OSes (RISCOS and Fedora for sure - there may be others) that have been ported to the RPi use this boot system. Both partitions are on the SD card the RPi uses as mass storage. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |