Hi all, I think the subject makes my question clear enough, but I'll provide some background. The x86_64 machine I'm currently using as a router/freenet node/i2p node has some components which are on the brink of failing, the mobo seems to be one of those. So, I'm looking at what to replace it with, and it seems like the raspberry pi 2b should do most if not all of what I want nicely, and for a small price. I am considering what I would run on it, and naturally raspbian is my first choice, since I'm already very familiar with debian.
It seems like the raspberry pi foundation is providing some pi specific packages for raspbian jessie, and uses debian's official armfh repositories for the rest. If that is correct, then it also looks like raspbian jessie for armfh contains systemd. Is this correct as well? If yes, then I'm assuming that devuan is currently focusing on x86 and x86_64. So my question, what alternative choices do I have? I can use raspbian wheezy. However, if I'm going to be setting up a brand new system, it makes little sense to install something which will be end of life in a few months. I'm also familiar with slackware, but like debian/devuan's vast choice of binary packages. The only other distributions I'm aware of for the pi are arch and ubuntu, which already use, or will be using systemd as far as I know. Since I plan to mainly use this as a router, I could put openwrt on it, but I don't think that will give me things like apcupsd, and bind9. If I'm wrong on that, I'd love to know. I admit I haven't investigated openwrt too much being in favor of raspbian before I discovered that likely contains systemd. I like that openwrt runs on busybox. I was planning to get a serial cable for the pi, so I can do console=ttyS0,115200 to be able to interact with it from boot to shutdown, but saw no mention anywhere of being able to do this, so I probably won't get the cable. Being blind, I have no use for a screen, and see little point to having a keyboard with no output. So whatever distribution I would use needs to be light, text-console-based, and provide a ready to login ssh server once I put the sd card into the pi, and plug it in. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. I will also be needing another wired usb network card. So, if anyone can suggest one which you know is supported by linux, that would be great too if the list moderators will allow it. Unfortunately the product listings don't list the chipset a given card uses. I'll be shopping at newegg.com. Thanks in advance. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
