Ubuntu support for Banana Pi?

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming]

On Saturday, March 1st, 2025 at 7:03 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> There are three fairly major "commonallities";
> 
> 1) 40 Pin GPIO header, generally compatible with the Raspberry Pi, so many Pi
> HATs and Bonnets will work with these machines.

So I can buy an add-on card with extra network ports and fit it on a Raspberry Pi via the 40-pin GPIO header?

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming


> 
> 2) "Credit Card" SBC form factor (more or less).
> 
> 3) Linuix ARM O/S
> 
> Yes, otherwise they are completely different systems, but given the above they
> all can fit into a common "niche".
> 
> I too have a "farm" (LAN) of Raspberry Pis, but also a Banana Pi M64 and a
> Beagle Bone Black are on my network,
> 
> But those three things make them about as alike as pair of "PCs". Yes, a Dell
> and a HP are completely different machines, but most people would clump them
> together under the class of "PCs" (as opposed to Macs or Game Consoles, etc.).
> 
> > 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.
> 
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