But why, if you have a choice would you diverge. Why not install bash on the solaris machine.
Same with the pi, which despite your insistence its only a teaching tool, I suspect that is actually a small fraction of their sales. The compute modules and their carriers make that point along with the popular HATs.
As do a few other posters on this forum noting how they show up on the internet connected to peoples various IoT devices. Pi holes, Kodi boxes, cheap security cameras, on and on. Pretty much everyone I know in IT has a few of them they are using for those purposes or sitting in their junk boxes. One guy I knew literally purchased thousands of them because he was running a little hobby security business and they are great (cheap!) little security cameras given a PoE hat and a camera.
The number of students I know with them? Two, both of which were getting CS/etc style degrees, and I purchased for them to play around with. High schoolers/etc zero. Despite asking quite a number of them on the robotics teams/etc. Frankly, they aren't very good IoT devices either, wemos/arduino/etc are far more approachable if all you want to learn how to do is blink a led, or connect a moisture sensor to the internet.
So, at least where I live and the people I talk to, they are basically hacker devices.
> But why, if you have a choice would you diverge. Why not install bash on the solaris machine.
You diverge because you're designing a product and you want to. (The Raspberry Pi desktop, for example, is available to run on non-linux platforms; there is a continuum for them.)
There are plenty of Ubuntu-based Linux distros with diverging requirements; which ones do you not approve of?
They have their own intent to develop a distro with a particular focus; so does Raspberry Pi.
If you disregard intent as a factor, sure; there's no justification for any of those distros. But then if you disregard intent as a factor there's no inherent justification for _any_ distros at all.
> So, at least where I live and the people I talk to, they are basically hacker devices.
OK. But we should probably stipulate that the Foundation intends them to also be used by people who want to learn computing on a very low budget, and that is why they have chosen to create their own (reconfigurable) OS.
Same with the pi, which despite your insistence its only a teaching tool, I suspect that is actually a small fraction of their sales. The compute modules and their carriers make that point along with the popular HATs.
As do a few other posters on this forum noting how they show up on the internet connected to peoples various IoT devices. Pi holes, Kodi boxes, cheap security cameras, on and on. Pretty much everyone I know in IT has a few of them they are using for those purposes or sitting in their junk boxes. One guy I knew literally purchased thousands of them because he was running a little hobby security business and they are great (cheap!) little security cameras given a PoE hat and a camera.
The number of students I know with them? Two, both of which were getting CS/etc style degrees, and I purchased for them to play around with. High schoolers/etc zero. Despite asking quite a number of them on the robotics teams/etc. Frankly, they aren't very good IoT devices either, wemos/arduino/etc are far more approachable if all you want to learn how to do is blink a led, or connect a moisture sensor to the internet.
So, at least where I live and the people I talk to, they are basically hacker devices.
Also, note the questions in: https://old.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/