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A comment on Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board computers so ugly?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by striking on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:40PM (#10799741)
Perhaps the poster meant the numerous proprietary blobs and patches that can't be upstreamed for certain platforms.

The RasPi fixed those problems, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by plaes on Monday December 28, 2015 @02:35AM (#10800290)
RasPi is not yet fully supported upstream.

But it's work in progress.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by chei0aiV on Monday December 28, 2015 @11:02PM (#10805108)
The RasPi still needs a GPU blob to boot right?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by Narishma on Friday January 01, 2016 @02:02PM (#10822860)
Yes, the equivalent of the BIOS on PCs.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the software ecosystem of single-board com... by hexman on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:54PM (#10799769)
Yep. I think the decision is Linux+Docker where all apps run in containers.
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