Ubuntu support for Banana Pi?

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming]

On Friday, February 28th, 2025 at 10:14 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 at 17:54, Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com wrote:
> 
> > 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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Looks like it is much better to buy Raspberry Pi than all the other brands of Pi.

But if I want to run Raspberry Pi as a router or firewall, I need to buy an add-on board to increase the number of network ports and there may not be a casing for it.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming

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