Top 10 distros for raspberry pi development: Part 1

As you must have heard about the hype raspberry pi produced, raspberry pi took the open source world by storm. This affected linux communities too. Then came handful of distros especially developed for raspberry pi. I have compiled a list of 10 best linux distros which can be used for raspberry pi development. The first five distros are mentioned below:-

Pidora:- Pidora is a Fedora remix, as they claim, designed especially for Raspberry Pi development. Pidora contains packages from Fedora ARM compiled especially for ARMv6 architecture. Packages have been specially written or modified for our favorite Raspberry Pi.

    The latest version Pidora 2014 contains packages from Fedora 20.

However, few things to note are Pidora is little bit slower than its rivals, especially Raspbian. There are a few factors that slows down the performance of the distro for raspberry pi.

RISC OS :- RISC OS was developed in Cambridge, England by Acorn. RISC OS was especially designed for ARM architecture. The roots of RISC OS can be traced back to the founder of RISC architecture. RISC architecture was modified to form a 32-bit RISC architecture to form ARM architecture back in 1987.

RISC OS is not linux . The file system of RISC OS is different from your traditional linux disrto. Hence, one may require some time to get used to RISC OS. RISC  OS is worth a shot, but not Raspbian.

Arch Linux ARM :- Arch Linux has always been big player in linux and for a niche class. Arch Linux ARM provides OS platform for ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv8 architecture.

   Arch linux ARM gives a powerful and fast performance as well as saving Raspberry pi’s processor for task performance. But Arch linux as said often is not for beginners and ARM OS is not an exception.

Raspbian :-Raspbian is the most popular raspberry pi linux as well as most loved. Raspbian is debian based OS containing packages designed especially for raspberry pi. There are over 35000 packages pre compiled for raspberry pi.

   Raspbian is everything right. Right from booting, to developing over python.

Fedora 21:- Fedora 21 is not really raspberry pi OS. That job is done by pidora, which is a fedora remix itself. However, fedora has an ARM version release which can be used in raspberry pi development.

   While fedora stands out because of its community, it gives an inferior performance in terms of raspberry pi development. Following this, pidora was released.

I have also made a part 2 of the list, here is the link: Top 10 distros for raspberry pi development: Part 2.

   These are the five OS used for raspberry pi development. The list of next pi OS will be updated soon. Do not forget to comment your suggestions!