Performance wise, Windows would be a dog on such a device . . . On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:50 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> *I can't imagine Windows actually doing anything useful on RPi. I don't >> see how Windows 10 (whatever it really turns out to be) competes in any >> real way with the openness and reliability of embedded Linux, based on what >> I understand about the embedded device and control space.* >> > > There is one thing useful Windows can do on the rPI, or other embedded > system. And that would be use the .NET base class library. Sure, there is > Mono on Linux, but Mono is no where near as complete as MS's .NET framework. > > For me personally. I gave up on .NET in the embedded space a long time > ago, and I'm honestly not missing it one bit. For others though, who only > know high level languages . . . this could be a big deal. > > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Bruce Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I will. BBB is more suited to OEM use than RPi (though I did buy a Pi2, >> they both run Python). I would not built RPi into an OEM system which I had >> to support for 5+ years. >> >> I can't imagine Windows actually doing anything useful on RPi. I don't >> see how Windows 10 (whatever it really turns out to be) competes in any >> real way with the openness and reliability of embedded Linux, based on what >> I understand about the embedded device and control space. >> >> Bruce >> >> >> On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 6:19:01 AM UTC-7, lisarden wrote: >>> >>> Hey guys! >>> >>> I'm pretty sure that you already heard about Raspberry Pi 2 >>> announcement but I find more exciting news that the brand new windows >>> 10 operating system will get official support at Rpi2. Taking in >>> account more powerful processor (in comparison with the successor) and >>> super low price, and win10 support of course, - who's gonna buy BBB or >>> BB-X15? >>> >>> More info about Win10 support is here: >>> https://dev.windows.com/en-us/featured/raspberrypi2support >>> >>> cheers! >>> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
