Why does Fedora support the Raspberry Pi 4, but not the much more powerful Orange Pi 5?

Last Updated on April 24, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

How to runFedora run on the Orange Pi 5:

  • Fedora supports UEFI, which should be fairly generic
  • Then you need the right overlays for the kernel
  • These instructions are probably as good as it get
  • after the boot and the kernel, Fedoras is a pretty generic Linux software.

But it makes a big difference if a device is supported by Fedora or not. Fedora supports the Raspberry Pi 4, but cannot convince us with a demo that we can work with it as a daily driver. The main reason it that the Raspberry Pi 4 is not very powerful. But the Orange Pi 5 is much more powerful, which makes the devices a good candiate to be supported by Fedora.