As you know the Pi 3 is not the fastest computer, but a very cheap computer to do timetabling. See https://www.raspberrypi.org/
This computer has got 4 cores, 1GB RAM and cost only around 35€.
If you are interested in its speed, please read https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=166.0
If you want to compile FET you need to install the "Qt 5 development default package" (currently version 5.7.1 is included in the Raspbian package manager).
Than just as always:
Decompress the FET source.
Open the terminal and go into the fet directory.
Run ,,qmake fet.pro"
and ,,make"
Sadly the Pi is not very fast, so compiling take a lot of time.
As you know, you can speed up compiling by using more cores. But again: Sadly compiling need a lot of RAM. Compiling FET need up to 300 MB per used core.
So with a fresh install Raspbian and the default Video size of 64 MB you will run out of memory if you try to compile with all 4 cores.
You can compile with 3 cores (,,make -j3"). I suggest to close all other unneeded programs. Since a few times the needed RAM will be up to 900 MB. (But on the other hand it is also many times less than 500 MB in total; so if you know how to handle that problem you can compile with 4 cores most of the time.). It will take around 1 hour to compile with 3 cores.
If you want to do other things at the same time (like reading your mails or surfing in the internet) I suggest to compile with max 2 cores (,,make -j2"). It will take around 83 minutes to compile.
By the way running FET might need less RAM. Of course that is highly depending on your data set. Running the German example file with 33 teachers and 22 classes need around 70 MB RAM.
So happy timetabling.
FreeBSD has 5.34.0:
$ pkg rquery "%v" fet
5.34.0
And if you use latest repository can install fet-cli (only command-line version and only its dependencies).
ah.. yes.
Since Raspbian is using Debian Stretch you can download fet also by the "apt".
Debian Stretch has got FET 5.30.8.
If you know how to download Debian Buster and/or Sid, you can get the latest version (at the moment 5.35.2).
Quote from: Volker Dirr on February 19, 2018, 05:21:29 PM
If you know how to download Debian Buster and/or Sid, you can get the latest version (at the moment 5.35.2).
And is it compiled to ARM too? I think the official package repositories are available only to amd64 (and i386).
Not only amd64 and i386.
There are also a lot of other computers supported by the official package repositories. (The Raspberry Pi is a "armhf").
Have a look at the end of the following page:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/fet
Ah, I see. But you can download Debian ISO files to ARM so the Raspbian unneeded :)
Yes and No. Depending on what you do.
a) Many users will already have Raspbian, since that is normaly already installed if you buy an Raspberry Pi with SD card.
b) I am not sure about the GOPI-Ports and the connector for camera and extra display (not the html-display). They run out of the box with Raspbian. I am not sure how to use them with default Debian. I guess/bet drivers are not installed there, since most other arm users don't have that. So Raspbian is running fine out of the box. I am not sure about Debian. I fear you need to config that. Maybe i will try that next weekend.
c) I am also not sure about Mathematica, Minecraft, ... . There are special free versions for Raspbian. That versions are not included in official debian, since Mathematica is not free software. You need to pay a few hundred Euro/Dollar if you want to buy it for debian. Raspbian users get it for free :-)
Understand :)
But I think I'll stay at FreeBSD ;)
So you use FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi (or "only" on an other computer)?
I'm using FreeBSD on an RPi (with Kodi), on two laptops (me and my wife), on one old (about 15 years old) desktop machine (only backup, not daily use) and on five VPS's.
Nice. I think i tried FreeBSD the last time maybe 20 years ago.
Maybe i will give it a try the next days again.
You use a Pi 3 or 2?
If you use a Pi 3: WiFi is working? (I just ask because of https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi . Maybe the information is already out of date)
So what do you suggest as best iso i can use?
a) http://www.raspbsd.org/raspberrypi.html (more "stable"?)
b) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/ ("newer"?!)
c) maybe there is even a better location?!
I'm using it on FreeBSD 2 (model B).
I don't know about RaspBSD. I'm using 11.1 (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html). The 12 is "under developing" (or CURRENT (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html) in FreeBSD terminology), its release expected about one year later (see here (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/schedule.html)).