[Server-devel] New Toys: Fedora 25 on RPi3 / XSCE 6.1 on Raspbian

[Alex Perez]

> On Oct 22, 2016, at 10:22 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
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> Jerry & All,
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> 1) Is anyone testing Peter Robinson's Fedora 25 Beta on RPi3 yet, as released Oct 11?
> 
>    https://fedoramagazine.org/raspberry-pi-support-fedora-25-beta/ <https://fedoramagazine.org/raspberry-pi-support-fedora-25-beta/>

I tested it (specifically, the Workstation version, beta 1.1) last night, and again this morning, and it “just works”!
> 
> Does the above imply http://kraxel.org <http://kraxel.org/>  and http://fedberry.org <http://fedberry.org/> are less needed going forward?  Regardless whether CentOS ever later legit-lands on RPi3?
> 
> 2) Is anybody testing George Hunt's work pushing XSCE 6.1 onto RPi3 yet, as similarly released experimentally in early Oct 3?
> 
>    http://www.xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.1/rpi/experimental/raspbian_xsce_full-6.1.img.zip <http://www.xsce.org/downloads/xsce-release-6.1/rpi/experimental/raspbian_xsce_full-6.1.img.zip>

Not yet.
> 
> 3) Is there MicroSD card support for moving entire images from 64GB to 128GB MicroCards (expanding the partition) and back to 64GB later if nec (shrinking the partition, possibly even to another manufaturer of MicroSD cards whose partitionable space is slightly smaller by 1% etc?!)

No support needed at the card level, it just works.
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> F25 is still ~3 weeks away from final release, and XSCE 6.1 is still shaking out a couple fixes in general on all platforms, but any feedback/experiences around the above RPi3 opportunities would be highly useful to all, as many seek to build authentic community around one or both/all above approaches !


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