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Well, I have to admit I have not been keeping up with the Raspberry Pi world. I think I remember hearing that someone was working on porting Sailfish to the Pi; but they've gotten a bit further than I'd thought. Here's a guy who's cobbled together a Pi, a battery, a touchscreen, and Sailfish 1.1.9.28:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBneqlCddnk

I have to admit, given that I now expect it'll be some months before I personally receive a Jolla tablet (and the phone just doesn't exist here), this is looking like an appealing way to come up with a usable Sailfish device (even if it looks like a frankenstein's monster ).

So, anyone here have any experience running Sailfish on a Pi?

Here are some more links on this Pi "tablet":

https://sailpi.wordpress.com/2015/10...dalone-tablet/

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/18/rasp...n-sailfish-os/

EDIT: Some images of this monster:







EDIT 2: BTW, the video shows Sailfish running on a Pi connected to a touchscreen, but not this particular battery-powered Pi...

Here's a video of the actual "tablet" in action. Even better, it's being used to control an LED via the Pi's GPIO pins from a Python script running under Sailfish...

https://youtu.be/xGOLm8PnoaU

Last edited by Copernicus; 2015-10-19 at 08:10.
 

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