[ale] Distro recommendations for RPI?

[erik at mathists.com (Erik Mathis)]

Dont use it for desktop stuff. Unless you like cutting your self. Beyond 
some basic's like calc it was way to slow even over clocked.My son and I 
tried raspian for a week, ended up installing an tsclent (i think) on it 
and stood up an edbuntu server+xRDP for it its desktop stuff.

-Erik-
> On 12/25/2012 04:25 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> There is a Fedora spin for RPi.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Sent from my HTC smartphone
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: "Jeff Layton" <laytonjb at att.net>
>> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
>> Subject: [ale] Distro recommendations for RPI?
>> Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 1:14 PM
>>
>>
>> Happy Holidays all!
>>
>> I got a RPI for Christmas! (who says Christmas can't be great
>> when you're 50?) That means I'm looking for recommendations
>> for distros for it. In general I may be doing the following with it:
>>
>> - Some testing with it around numerical applications (curious
>>    more than anything)
>> - I'd like to write some python code that may involve Numpy,
>>   matplotlib, and a few other packages
>> - I like a good desktop/window manager
>> - Firefox? (not a big deal)
>> - Playing flash movies (not sure if this is possible)
>> - Pretty decent set of media capabilities (I may try handbrake
>>   on it at some point :)  )
>>
>> Based on this terse set of things does anyone have
>> recommendations for a good distro for it?
>>
>> My initial surfing has turned up Bodhi Linux (I really like
>> Enlightment and want to try the newest version), Red Sleeve
>> Linux (I'm a long-time RH and clone user), OpenSUSE (I think
>> they use icewm which I really like), and of course, Raspian.
>> But honestly, I'm not wedded to anything at this point.
>>
>> TIA! And Merry Christmas!
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
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