Alternative Operating Systems for the Pi

Whilst I appreciate we have have forums for various operating systems, thought it would be a good idea to produce a list of what I have found is available apart from Debian, Arch and RiscOS

piCore http://www.tinycorelinux.net/arm.html

Fedora Remix http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.p ... dora_Remix

Slitaz Linux http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/12/15/ ... pberry-pi/

Gentoo Linux http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

NetBSD http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3145

FreeBSD http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3094

OpenSuse http://zq1.de/~bernhard/linux/opensuse

Slackware 14.0 http://stanleygarvey.com/Slackberry/index.php

Slackware 13.37 http://slackware.spit-ct.ro/raspberrypi

Slackware create yourself http://rpi.fatdog.eu and http://www.daves-collective.co.uk/raspi

There's also:

Bodhi Linux http://www.bodhilinux.com/

Based on Ubuntu, it has the Enlightenment desktop and many cool desktop themes. Runs Chromium well.

There's also:

Bodhi Linux http://www.bodhilinux.com/

Based on Ubuntu, it has the Enlightenment desktop and many cool desktop themes. Runs Chromium well.

I thought Bhodi was Raspbian Wheezy with E17 ?, hence why not listed !

Maybe Bhodi should request there own forum space ?

[jamesh]

By alternate OS's I thought you might be listing non-*nix OS's....

You've missed Plan9, and RISCOS.

By alternate OS's I thought you might be listing non-*nix OS's....

You've missed Plan9, and RISCOS.

Yes I should of listed Plan9 and RiscOS

I did not mention

OpenElec http://openelec.tv/get-openelec/viewcat ... -pi-builds

IMHO listing OSes not based on the standard GNU/Linux/(option of Xorg) would be the best plan. In which case, I can count:

Completely free from Linux:
* RISC OS (not Unix-based at all)
* Plan9 ("More Unix than Unix")
* NetBSD (Unix but not Linux. Very slow because of the debug options currently enabled in public images)
* FreeBSD (Unix but not Linux. I haven't tried it.)

Linux-based but not a standard desktop/command-line distribution:
* Android (The popular Linux-based smartphone OS. So slow it's almost unusable)
* BerryTerminal (thin client, haven't tried)
* OpenWRT (router, haven't tried)
* OpenELEC (XBMC, haven't tried)
* XBian (XBMC, haven't tried)
* Raspbmc (XBMC, haven't tried)
* AROS (Amiga-compatible APIs running on a host Linux system. Looks very interesting, but I haven't tried)




Let me know if there are any mistakes or if I have missed anything.

... should of ...

Sets my teeth on edge every time I see it. (Which, regrettably, is becoming more frequent.)

My take on OSs that some haven't tried:

OpenElec (it's a media centre) - great, it works without problems. iPlayer and YouTube easily added as add-ons and they run without glitches. Stick with the default desktop though. Autoupgrades on bootup.

Raspbmc (it too is a media centre) - much work needed when I tried it. Freezing and kludgy.

FreeBSD - seemed like a professional OS to me, just seemed to work, whatever. However, the reason I stopped using it was it seemed difficult to expand the OS to the size of my 16Gb SD card.

RISC OS - worth a try as it's a drag and drop OS. However, seriously lacking printer and USB drivers, and Youtube and iPlayer totally out of it.

But horses for courses - if you want to control things then Raspbian is it....

These views from a noob

My take on OSs that some haven't tried:

OpenElec (it's a media centre) - great, it works without problems. iPlayer and YouTube easily added as add-ons and they run without glitches. Stick with the default desktop though. Autoupgrades on bootup.

Raspbmc (it too is a media centre) - much work needed when I tried it. Freezing and kludgy.

FreeBSD - seemed like a professional OS to me, just seemed to work, whatever. However, the reason I stopped using it was it seemed difficult to expand the OS to the size of my 16Gb SD card.

RISC OS - worth a try as it's a drag and drop OS. However, seriously lacking printer and USB drivers, and Youtube and iPlayer totally out of it.

But horses for courses - if you want to control things then Raspbian is it....

These views from a noob

From my experience, Raspbmc works so much better than OpenELEC.

+

ChibiOS

and

FreeRTOS

... should of ...

Sets my teeth on edge every time I see it. (Which, regrettably, is becoming more frequent.)

Senior Moment, we all have them, and nobody, even you, are perfect 100% of the time............................

Red Sleeve Linux is an ARM port to the Fedora/Red Hat Linux Distro. It works very well on the Pi.

Also, Since HP's WebOS is now open source, has anyone attempted to port it to the Pi (or to ARM in general)???

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piBang http://pibanglinux.org

As far as I know the oly OSes that we have for the RPi so far are:

Linux
RISC OS
Plan 9
FreeRTOS
NetBSD
FreeBSD
AROS (NOT the linux hosted version).
ChibiOS
Windows CE 7
DexOS

Of these Linux is not an alternative OS, And I would say hat neither is RISC OS, as Linux and RISC OS are the primary OSes for the RPi.

I meant alternative to what the RPF list on their web site..........................................

As far as I know the oly OSes that we have for the RPi so far are:

Linux
RISC OS
Plan 9
FreeRTOS
NetBSD
FreeBSD
AROS (NOT the linux hosted version).
ChibiOS
Windows CE 7
DexOS

Of these Linux is not an alternative OS, And I would say hat neither is RISC OS, as Linux and RISC OS are the primary OSes for the RPi.

Where can I get Windows CE 7 from? It's one I would like to play with

Undertake a forum search for Windows CE !

As far as I know the oly OSes that we have for the RPi so far are:

Linux
RISC OS
Plan 9
FreeRTOS
NetBSD
FreeBSD
AROS (NOT the linux hosted version).
ChibiOS
Windows CE 7
DexOS

Of these Linux is not an alternative OS, And I would say hat neither is RISC OS, as Linux and RISC OS are the primary OSes for the RPi.

But not all of these are released, even in testing form (I don't see anyone who's released a Windows CE build, for instance. But thanks for the list, some of these I didn't realise had experimental pi builds.

Red Sleeve Linux (Fedora based) http://www.redsleeve.org/about

Kali Limix http://www.kali.org/downloads

Where can I get Windows CE 7 from? It's one I would like to play with

sounds like an amasing title for another topic . ..

Whilst I appreciate we have have forums for various operating systems, thought it would be a good idea to produce a list

nice one !

i have often thought
somthing like the * "GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline" from futurist.se/gldt/
ploting distros with pi ports ( gldt-pip )
would be a good thing.


*img eg -- > gldt1210.svg

http://futurist.se/gldt/