Ubuntu support for Banana Pi?

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Liam, thank you for clarifying this.  I run several Raspberry Pi 4 units 
in my house.  Marvelous little devices.

On 2/28/25 06:14, Liam Proven 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.
>
-- 
SDM a 21st century schizoid man in SoCal
Systems Theory website www.systemstheory.net
Through The Looking Glass radio show at www.deepnuggets.com
Email "The Cleaner System" at cleaner.system at yahoo.com