What we personally miss to make out of the Orange Pi a real Raspberry Pi competitor – “an Orange Pi Foundation”

Last Updated on January 14, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

A foundation or a group of YouTube video makers who does for sintance this

• evaluates a major OS for the Orange Pi and promotes it’s future development
• resolves issues of the OS and publishes these
• Writes a Wiki page as for instance the one we have for Raspberry Pi OS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_OS

There is a lot of work behind such a WIKI page.

For the Orange Pi 5 we have different OS. For instance in Joshua Riek’s Orange Pi 5 Ubuntu 22.04 image is a lof of work as well :

Is the Orange Pi 5 more interesting for developers at the University level than the Raspberry Pi 5 & eventually also for young people (part III) – Joshua Riek’s Orange Pi 5 Ubuntu 22.04 image

And we would like to mention these 3 OS for the Orange Pi 5 as well:

• armbian
• Ubuntu official version for Orange Pi 5
• the optimized version of Ubuntu for Rockchip for the Orange Pi 5 Plus:

Which OS to choose for the Orange Pi 5 Plus?

But which OS to choose for which application? And is there a continuity of development for instance for Ubuntu for Orange Pi as it is for the Raspberry Pi OS? The official OS is Orange Pi OS but who uses it? There is a lot of work behind software development for Orange Pi’s too.

But can one of these OS for Orange Pi’s compete with Raspberry Pi OS as far as software stability is concerned? If not is it not time to start such a project to document this better? We won’t do this, since we are not YouTube video makers or demo makers. But we started to review this topic in our own interest and suggest to found an Orange Pi Foundation, which we aren’t. But you can find the information we reviewed in our journal under the tag «Orange Pi 5«:

https://petergamma.org/tag/orange-pi-5/

And in the «search» toolbox on our website at the bottom.