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Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi 3
The Raspberry Pi 3 has a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC incorporating a Quad-core ARMv8 Cortex-A53 [64 bit] CPU @ 1.2GHz and VideoCore IV GPU @ 400MHz, and comes with 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM @ 900MHz. This revised and upgraded ARM single board computer succeeds the Raspberry Pi (2), and is considerably quicker and a lot more powerful. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are now included on-board. Still no RTC though. Think of the RPi3 as a renovation, and not an innovation. Slackware ARM, as you would expect, runs faultlessly on this device, with a very significant increase in speed. Compile times are much shorter compared to the RPi2, for example.
The Raspberry Pi 3 is supported outside of the official Slackware ARM tree by the Slackware community.
Slackware releases 14.1
Follow the link(s) in the table below. These are maintained by a separate author as part of the Slackware-on-Raspberry Pi community.
Site | Slackware versions | Using official Slackware packages | Installation methods | Notes |
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fatdog | 14.1, 14.2 | Yes | Slackware installer | An end-to-end HOW TO guiding you through the installation and setup process. |
As long you use the most recent raspbian image and firmware the Raspberry Pi 1 manual install method also works for the Pi 2 and Pi 3.