From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:40:51 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 10/15/2025 7:01 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:33:20 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> I believe Arne's point was the fairly obvious one that a retail chain   
   >>> or a hospital chain does not need to and cannot afford to maintain,   
   >>> for example, their own operating system.   
   >>   
   >> Do you think that is hard to do?   
   >   
   > Hire enough experts to have people that know the code base of every   
   > critical part: Linux kernel, glibc etc. probably 50-100 million lines of   
   > code: bloody expensive. We are talking hundreds engineers - and not just   
   > any engineers but top engineers.   
      
   When the Raspberry Pi was first released, there was a Debian version   
   available for it, but it was not optimized for the Pi’s unusual   
   combination of hardware floating point + an older version of the ARM   
   instruction set.   
      
   Two guys decided to take it upon themselves to rebuild the whole of   
   Debian, from source, optimized for the Pi hardware. It took them six   
   weeks.   
      
   They called their distro “Raspbian”. These days I think the Raspberry Pi   
   foundation has taken on official support for it, and are calling it   
   “Raspberry Pi OS”.   
      
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