On May 2, 2013 13:27 Thorsten Mühlfelder thenk...@salixos.org wrote:
rich@rpi-17:~$ uname -a
Linux rpi-17 3.6.11+ #408 PREEMPT Wed Apr 10 20:33:39 BST 2013 armv6l
ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BCM2708 GNU/Linux
also see http://imageshack.us/a/img849/863/screenshot0316201309191.png
Looks nice, but it is damn slow when used as desktop, isn't it?
That's a moot point. The Raspberry pi was never intended to be a desktop
machine it is a toy computer for children to learn programming and electronic
interfacing on. It also depends on what you mean by desktop, if you mean
desktop environment, the there are many to chose from. I would not recommend
running KDE on a Raspberry pi but xfce is pretty nippy once it has loaded (on
start up things like gpg-agent run in the background soaking up 100 cpu., This
can be turned off if you wish). Speed is also affected by the raspberry pi's
use of SD card storage, you may find you have periods of high iowait caused by
kswapd and mmcd, This can be addressed by turning off journaling and access
time writes to SDcard etc.
All in all the Raspberry pi is a neat bit of 'off the shelf' kit that has great
potential for use in not only in education but also home automation and
building cool gadgets like media centers, wifi internet radios etc, etc.
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I'm using it as an headless appliance to provide remote support to customers,
so I'm not using it in any kind of desktop role.
For what I'm using it as it's a great little cheap box, doing sterling work as
a protocol bridge.
Our customers love that it basically extends our support structure right inside
of their infrastructure, making passing stuff to us as easy as anything they do
on their own systems.
Looking at it from the declared aims of the foundation, I'm not sure their
project is ontrack to deliver anything like what they set about it delivering.
Which is why I stopped bothering to contribute to their site.
It seems to have been taken over by hobbyists who all know how to make it be a
media server, or a home automation device.
The community has become filled with those people who have already done the
work for the targeted audience.
But then I think people are inherently lazy, if a pre-existing solution exists,
which does what that person wants, then they'll use that solution rather than
go and write one themselves.
FOSS pretty much proves that beyond any doubt. Slackware undoubtedly proves it
beyond any doubt, many slackers could build from scratch but we all like what
Pat (@ team (not excluding any of the rest of you Stuart)) did, so we don't
bother doing it ourselves.
I can't help feeling the hobbyist community which has grown up around the Pi
has pretty much ruled out kids bothering to learn with it, they'll just use the
hobbyists stuff on their Pis.
Now if the hobbyist community had been about here's how you could make it into
a ... instead of here's an image which makes it a ... then they might have
had something.
If you can accept (and work around) its limitations (like 22 hours for a full
build on a single Pi (distcc is a wonderful bit of kit :-) ), then it's a very
capable little box, well worth the money.
Thanks
Dave
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