Ubuntu support for Banana Pi?

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 at 17:54, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> Yes, there are various flavors of Pis: Raspberry, Banana, Orange, and Rock...

I think this is so very inaccurate that it is _wildly_ misleading.

It is akin to saying that there are many flavours of Ford cars: VW,
Seat, Daewoo.

No there are not.

There is a very successful range of Arm-based single-board computers
from the UK called Raspberry
Pi, so named because the original plan was to make a cheap computer
for kids that could run Python.

Pi is a mathematical constant and a Greek letter and so it can't be
copyrighted or trademarked.

As a result lots of other companies have launched _totally unrelated_
Arm-based SBCs called "something Pi", many of them $FRUIT Pi. They are
not flavours of Raspberry Pi. They are nothing to do with the
Raspberry Pi in *any way*.

They are, in effect, rival competitors who have copied part of the name.

Some but not all have compatible form factors or ports but they are
not related and not software compatible.

A notable difference is that Raspberry Pi Ltd supports its devices for
years and newer Linux kernels are available.

The semi-cloners do not. You often get 1 release ever.  Maybe if
you're lucky you'll get a few updates for a year. Then the device is
dropped because there is a newer model to replace it.

This is why projects like Armbian exist: to offer continuation of
Linux support for old discontinued SBCs.

But to compare the cloners with RPL is grossly unfair.

Another big difference is that the cloners only offer Linux. Real RPL
RasPi computer support multiple OSes and because they've sold millions
that support is wide.

As well as Linux the real RasPi can run RISC OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Plan 9, Windows
IOT, and others.

Do not muddle up the real RasPi with the legions of inferior knock-offs.

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