Of course I forgot to check after 2 years, but it's coming up 3, so where are things at (tweaking the tail once more)? Well my cosmetic Errors idea has actually pulled ahead of Darin's useful property node idea 176-168, thanks to a surge mid-last year for some unknown reason. Despite that, the chances of either actually being implemented is still about the same, which is probably best approximated by .
Good question.
Even though that is theoretically possible; we have decided not to open that Pandora box. The main reason being that different Linux distros have some subtle differences on how they handle graphics. And, they can actually be different enough to generate run-time problems. Since the RasPi for LV compiler allows front panel deployment, we would be swimming in a pool of support hell if we allowed any Linux distro/target under the sun.
We will not stop on the Pi; but will do a controlled release to other targets as we want to make sure we run some heavy tests on specific distros to make sure things work to some baseline standard before release.