On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:47 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> | From: Aruna Hewapathirane via talk <[email protected]> > > | Hi Mat, many thanks and the more ram it has on board the better. This is > | strictly > | for my own experimenting and learn by doing stuff. So any Pi will do to > | start off with I guess. > | > | I am hoping to go down the embedded linux rabbit hole. I have been > messing > | around > | with arduino for a while now and I guess it is now time to move on to > | something a little > | easier to compile and test a linux kernel on :-) > > Any Raspberry Pi would do for what you just said until you get to the last > line. > > If you don't care about kernel build time, I *guess* that any Pi would do, > but I don't know. > I do very much care about the build time. I was thinking of cross compiling on my ancient desktop then moving it to the Pi ? > | I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient > desktop. > | I simply can't > | afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup > > You don't need two monitors so you can remove that cost. You can probably > use your old monitor, keyboard, and mouse (you might need dongles to > convert between old and new standards). > > Agreed all I need is a single monitor. What are the specs of your ancient desktop? > Well.. like I said pretty old my bios is: cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date 07/05/2013 and lscpu shows: Architecture: x86_64 CPU(s): 4 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Model: 60 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz CPU MHz: 3389.375 CPU max MHz: 3400.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 6784.89 and free -h shows: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7.5G 5.2G 2.3G 341M 163M 2.1G -/+ buffers/cache: 2.9G 4.6G Swap: 902M 0B 902M it's not a bad system I just want to start messing with a Pi :-) > Most ancient desktops are actually more powerful than a Pi. For some > meanings of "ancient". If yours is really ancient, I would guess that > there is a cast-off PC that is less ancient. > > If you put a premium on "cute" and don't mind the various inconveniences, > a Pi can surely be used as your main general-purpose desktop. > --- > Thank you for all the pointers and advice. > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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