[ale] Distro recommendations for RPI?

[Jeff Hubbs]

Gentoo on the Pi is a non-issue; writeup at 
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi.

On 12/25/12 1:14 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 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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