I have 3 raspberry pi's original B, B+, 2 B (quad) I'm using the B+ as a headless server for apt-cacher, I use for live-build's The 2 B I'm going to make a lightweight desktop, as it's better spec'd than my netbook and used less power.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Gregory Nowak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:27:19PM +1100, Simon Wise wrote: > > raspbian is in between armel and armhf because debian armel is (or > > was then) compiled without hard float support while debian armhf is > > compiled for arm7 ... so since PIs are arm6 with FPU neither is > > suitable > > Just to be clear, the rpi2 is based on a ARMv7. My rpi2 is running > devuan jessie nicely, as I have posted here a few months ago. > > > > It > > can also be used by experienced people willing to put time into > > making a single purpose kiosk style setup. But anyone hoping for a > > cheap, open general computer will be frustrated. It is quite a good > > learning tool though, since the community is big and helpful. > > I think that depends on what one expects. If someone gets one of > these, and hopes it can replace a modern desktop/laptop, then that > person will indeed be frustrated. I wanted to use mine as a router > possibly running i2p and freenet as well, and I thought when I was > getting it I had a good understanding of its limitations. It does the > router part very well as I expected. It ran i2p well enough also, > though I have since transferred that to my laptop for reasons unrelated > to performance. The freenet node ran fine when it was idle. However > putting some downloads in the queue made the freenet node slow to > respond, and it crashed once a day or so.. I had hoped all of that > would be otherwise, but am not surprised by the reality of things. The > main job for my rpi2 is to be a router, and it does that very well so far. > > 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 >
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