Short Bytes: Fedora 25 Beta now supports the
popular single-board computers Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. Apart from the
Workstation version, you can also run Fedora 25 Beta Server. At the
moment, the newer Raspberry Pi 3 owners need to useBluetooth and Wi-Fi
USB dongles as onboard WiFi/Bluetooth isn’t supported. Unfortunately,
older Pis and Zero will never be supported.
Red
Hat is the biggest name in the open source world and it’s busy
improving its line of distros: RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS. Out of these,
Fedora is known for delivering the best-in-class Linux desktop
experience that comes with the cutting edge Linux technologies. Often, a
new Fedora release, which is a community-supported distribution,
unconsciously influences the development process of other distributions.
Even Linux creator Linus Torvalds uses it.
In the past, we’ve seen some remixed version of Fedora that supported Raspberry Pi. Now, still in beta stage, Fedora 25 officially supports Raspberry Pi 2 and 3.
What does this support mean? It means that apart from little issues,
you can run this Linux distro that comes with support for different USB
drives, Wi-Fi dongles, and other stuff to get things done.
You are
going to get a good hardware support with Raspberry Pi 2. Fedora
Project mentions that a Minimal Install, Workstation, and XFCE worked
pretty fine on Pi 2. The testing included the regular MMC/USB/network,
fully accelerated graphics with an open driver, and other hardware.
Talking
about Raspberry Pi 3, apart from the standard device support, Fedora 25
Beta doesn’t support the onboard Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. The developers are
working to bring the functionality very soon.
The older ARMv6 Raspberry Pi (Zero, Model A, older v1 Pi Model B, and the current compute model) will never be supported.
How to install Fedora on Raspberry Pi?
The process of setting up Fedora 25 on Raspberry Pi is pretty basic. If you’ve read our Getting started with Raspberry Pi
series, you might be knowing what I’m talking about. You can easily
prepare the SD card on any Linux distro, MacOS, or Windows. While you
can use pretty much any microSD card for this purpose, I’ll recommend a
Class 10 card for better performance.
You can download the Fedora Workstation 25 Beta image here
and proceed. After that, you need to write this image on a properly
formatted card. Before running the following command, please change the /dev/XXX to match the location of your card and match the name of the
downloaded image:
xzcat Fedora-IMAGE-NAME.raw.xz | sudo dd status=progress bs=4M of=/dev/XXX
For more information, you can read the Fedora Project’s guide on the same topic.
Are you willing to try out Fedora on your Raspberry Pi board? Tell us in the comments below.
Source: https://fossbytes.com/fedora-how-to-install-on-raspberry-pi/
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