Am I on the wrong list for posing basic questions about Linux? I posted
a question a few weeks ago about about not being able to copy files
because of permissions and because filename had a '?' in it. I received
no response. I understand everyone is a volunteer. I'm not complaining -
just want to know if this is an appropriate forum for basic questions. I
know it's wrong to piggyback on this thread, but it is getting a lot of
traffic, so I had no choice. Do I keep posting, and just see which posts
are of interest to people, and which questions are not? Sorry, I'm not
one to take a hint or "know" when to leave a party. I need someone to
say, "Chris, leave the party." :)
Chris
On 2021-03-04 10:25 p.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:47 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
| From: Aruna Hewapathirane via talk <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
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