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Subject:    [ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [Embedded] Information for those using Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Xenial, 
From:       ros.discourse () gmail ! com (suforeman)
Date:       2017-02-18 15:45:46
Message-ID: topic/1205/2710 () discourse ! ros ! org
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I do see the attention to Ubuntu Core. This is why my previous conclusion was to \
suggest ROS to consider Raspbian or even one of the other fully supported Linux \
distributions for the Raspberry Pi audience. 

Here is where I see a divergence between ROS and Ubuntu as far as the Raspberry Pi is \
concerned. 

The majority of Raspberry Pi owners (and the focus of the Raspberry Pi org) is the \
experimentor, student, tinkerer, maker, learner, creator.

Ubuntu Core appears to focus on IoT which is more of a commercial direction. 

Unless a lot more packages are constructed as Snaps, it leaves very little usefulness \
for a large segment of the Raspberry Pi user base. (You can't just "apt-get install" \
on Ubuntu Core. 

Is ROS considering a focus on Ubuntu Core?

My personal activity with ROS is more "research" and "creator" and not IoT. None of \
the Taspbery Pi based projects I'm involved in are looking at Ubuntu Core.






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