Re: heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-06-28 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 28 iun 19, 20:54:39, Alan Corey wrote: > > What I'd like to see is a massive heat sink that dwarfs the circuit > board and becomes dominant, sort of like with Pentiums, could even > have a fan. You'd mount the heat sink then bolt the Pi to it, > probably with heat sink compound or a

Hostname v buster

2019-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just updated a pi3 to buster, presumeably rc2. But I used RealtimePi to install a 4.19.50-rt-v7 kernel into the image. That conversion insists the hostname is realtimepi. In stretch I could fix it to the name I'm used to by setting hostname, then sudo chattr +i hostname, and it

Re: heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
Unless you're going to overclock it (which I'm not sure is possible, probably) you don't need a heat sink. It will throttle (reduce speed) if it gets hot. A heat sink keeps it from overheating so soon so it can run at full speed longer. If you run cpuminer (to mine Litecoin or Bitcoin) it will

heatsink -- was [Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced]

2019-06-28 Thread Rick Thomas
So when I buy one of these in a couple of months, do I need to buy the heatsink too? Will the heatsink fit into the standard case? If not, is there a case that will fit? And, finally, is there a version of Debian that will run on one of these? Or should I just plan on running Raspbian?

Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
No big surprise there. Something about 1500 more on 7/4. I got on the list to get emailed when they get them. Oh well, time to get adapters ordered, and a different power supply. Looks like they built it to bolt a heat sink onto, there's free space around the CPU. The real announcement page:

Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is announced

2019-06-28 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 2:57 PM Alan Corey wrote: > > Tech specs at Element14 >

Raspberry Pi 4 is announced

2019-06-28 Thread Alan Corey
Tech specs at Element14

Re: Is there anyone useing RealtimePi here?

2019-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 June 2019 11:07:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > I'd like to ask the author something, but haven't been able to locate > an email address for him. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett FWIW, I've just found that raspbian now has a buster download (in progress but failed and restarted many

Is there anyone useing RealtimePi here?

2019-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
I'd like to ask the author something, but haven't been able to locate an email address for him. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for