Re: Jessie & Fixed IP Address
On Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:12:14 +0100
David <david.g_jones@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Firstly an apology, I did not realise there was a Debian Jessie and a
> Raspbian Jessie.
>
> I'm working with Raspbian Jessie.
>
Debian is the root of many other distributions such as Knoppix and
Ubuntu, and many less famous.
Raspbian is one that rings bells because it is based on the ARM, which
probably no full-sized computer is these days (the Acorn Archimedes
series used it almost thirty years ago). The range of Debian packages
ported to the ARM RISC architecture is significantly smaller than those
for i386 and amd64, so some things have to be done differently. The
limitations of the system-on-chip which composes almost all of the Pi
hardware imposes further limitations, compared to general-purpose
desktop hardware or even laptop hardware. The relatively small storage
space available again imposes restrictions.
So Raspbian may well be quite different to a stock amd64 Jessie,
utilising many of the tricks of older days of computing to make the
best of limited hardware.
--
Joe
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