Fedora brings optimized Pidora 18-edition for Raspberry Pi

Fedora has a special release of Fedora 18 will be released on the Raspberry Pi can run. The version, also known as a ‘Remix’, is Pidora 18 and is, according to the developers optimized for the ARMv6 architecture of the used cpu in the cheap minicomputer.

The designation Remix with the special version of Fedora 18 by the developers used to indicate that this is proprietary software of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Broadcom, the soc manufacturer. Pidora 18 contains further according to the developers, several optimisations for the ARMv6 architecture of the Broadcom soc, which Linux distribution is better performance than previous Fedora versions for the Raspberry Pi.

Within Pidora 18, an image size of 600MB, almost all Fedora packages are available. This can be done via the graphical desktop environment, choice of LXDE and XFCE installed, but it is also possible to Pidora to install and to use it in a headless mode. In addition, there are no keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the Raspberry Pi connected and the configuration via the network connection. It is even possible to use the selected ip address at boot time via a connected speaker to read aloud or with flashing leds.

The developers warn that the graphical mode of Pidora 18 is still not too fast, because the 2d-mode of X Windows is not hardware accelerated. Who in terminalmodus works on the Raspberry Pi by default, the decision about a number of popular text editors and file manager Midnight Commander.