Re: [SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread James Linder
On 30/04/2013, at 10:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLinuXino-MICRO/resources/iMX233-OLINUXINO-MICRO.pdf I've just built a Rasp-pi with archlinux. I guess it is cheap, challenging, busy and although I'm going to get one

Re: [SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Well i think it depends what you want to do with the thing. The Olinuxino has something like 60 GPIOs compared to the Pi's 17 or so. 2 UARTs 16 channel ADC External memory interface RTC Also it looks like the Olinuxino has a built-in hardware crypto engine. so really it depends what you want to

Re: [SLUG] Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread James Linder
On 30/04/2013, at 11:41 AM, Chris Barnes wrote: Well i think it depends what you want to do with the thing. The Olinuxino has something like 60 GPIOs compared to the Pi's 17 or so. 2 UARTs 16 channel ADC External memory interface RTC Also it looks like the Olinuxino has a built-in

[SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread Grant Bailey
Is either device powerful enough to act as small business server? I realise that some people have turned the Pi into a server but I'm not sure whether they have been deployed for commercial applications. Regards, Grant Bailey Original Message Subject:Re: [SLUG]

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Grant Bailey grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.au wrote: Is either device powerful enough to act as small business server? I realise that some people have turned the Pi into a server but I'm not sure whether they have been deployed for commercial applications.

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-29 Thread David Lyon
Here's some benchmarks that were previously done: - http://jalada.co.uk/2012/05/20/raspberry-pi-sd-card-benchmark.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html