I've got Ubuntu Server 25.04 running on the Pi Zero 2 W and everything seems to be OK. It ships without any swapfile, so package installs via apt and gcc compiles can run the system out of memory, but after I added a swapfile the package installs and gcc compiles aren't any slower than they were on PiOS. That will keep me mostly up to date until PiOS trixie is ready.The debian trixie release is still probably a few months away, but we are working on rpi-os trixie. I expect we'll do a public beta prior to the main release but I don't know when or any other details yet.
Things will be very similar to how they currently are on rpi-os bookworm with the bluetooth/audio stack, especially because we're already shipping a relatively recent pipewire on bookworm. The desktop will also still be labwc/wayland. The move shouldn't be very disruptive, most things should still work as before.
By the way, the application is a command-line / TUI USB audio signal processing "appliance"; there won't be any desktop and there will be assembly code and kernel shenanigans when it's all done. No offense, pipewire.
I probably won't mess with the Bluetooth stack; it has a reputation for latency and other things I don't want. As long as a "conventional" Linux with a recent kernel runs on it, I think I can avoid the need for cross-build tools.Statistics: Posted by znmeb — Wed May 28, 2025 12:43 am