Re: Raspberry Pi revisited
- Posted by EUWX Oct 31, 2012
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I am looking forward to your forthcoming release of Euphoria on Raspberry Pi.
This will happen when 4.1.0 is released.
If this thread marks the day that TinyBasic was ported to Raspberry Pi, then I'd like to point out that we ran on the Pi first.
I don't think it is a matter of who did what first.
Euphoria is generally available on Kubuntu/Ubunto and a couple of other distros using many computers. Raspberry Pi did not have very good Lunix on it till wheezy version with Rapbian - so, yes, euphoria was ahead even with Linux.
Euphoria is NOT available yet available on ARM processors comfortably - and definitely not on ARM 7 version which is the current release of ARM processors. I have already pointed out that the current Raspberry Pi is not comfortable with the many popular releases of Linux because they all support ARM ver 7 and the Raspberry Pi is currently built with ARM6.
Euphoria is definitely NOT available on Raspbian, the trusted version of Linux on Raspberry Pi - the one which would make the army of users of Raspberry Pi to start working with Euphoria. The version of Fedora which Seneca College (York U., Toronto) are working on is Fedora 17 and they intend to make it compatible for use on Raspberry PI. I heard a talk by the guy who is working on it and he is still going round and round in circles. Last week he said he will have it ready in 2-3 weeks! (seemed more like 3 months to me)
Perhaps the people at Raspberry Pi will release a newer Raspberry Pi using ARM-V7. There are a couple of companies working on a ARM design incorporating network hardware on the ARM chip, and these people at Seneca seem to have some industry support and I sensed (in a lecture given by the prof) Professorial inclination to go towards their direction. If they do, it will be a Fedora 17 or 18 version and built in complete network and server support working on Raspberry Pi. It is a tall order, but unlike people like you all working under Open Source platform without pay, these people have some financial support from the industry and also from University funding.
I am merely bringing in some information which might be helpful to you all. As I have said before, I am not a Linux person, nor am I a C or C plusplus or C# or F# fan. I do like Euphoria and that is why I am here. And I do like wxWidgets and am waiting patiently for the 2.9 release.
