port to Raspbian to run on Raspberry Pi?

[vielmetti]

This is mostly a wild-eyed idea right now, but I'd love to entertain notions on how to start from puppet-tilde (for Ubuntu) and port what's here to run on the Raspbian distro for the Raspberry Pi, or to do similar on the Beagle Bone, so that you might have a sub-$100 public access system built from the same tooling.

A possibly relevant issue / blog post here:

http://blog.csanchez.org/2014/01/23/installing-puppet-3-in-a-beaglebone-or-raspberry-pi/

[englishm]

I like the idea of adding explicit RPi support. (I recently set up a sort-of local network tilde.club for my young brother on his Raspberry Pi.) Raspbian is based on Debian Wheezy for armhf so it's in the same family as Ubuntu.

Throwing out some wackier ideas to build on this: using a provisioning tool that doesn't need to be installed to the target may make porting to platforms like RPi slightly easier. (If I recall correctly, Ansible works this way—i.e. only requires SSH access to run.) Another idea would be to build images that can just be downloaded and written to an SD Card.

[vielmetti]

We're running "Raspbian Server Edition" on some systems that go 24x7 unattended. Mostly you pull out all of the video support so you don't have the overhead of X Windows.

Here's a pointer to a package list: http://sirlagz.net/tag/raspbian-server-edition/