20 May
2013
20 May
'13
7:03 p.m.
On 20 May 2013, at 21:43, "Philipp Hachtmann" <hachti at hachti.de>
wrote:
Am 19.05.2013 11:29, schrieb Christian Corti:
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I really don't know. Once I got mine I became far, far less excited. Now it's
just been relegated to running on the UPS doing nothing but serving a MOP image for a
DECserver.
+1
-1 The advantages of using e.g. a PC are:
- Cheaper than one of those small SBCs (Beagle, Raspberry etc.), i.e.
a PC costs nothing (just grab one from your junk pile)
- Simple bridging to other media (Ethernet, WLAN, SCSI, CD-ROM drives
etc.)
- Possibility of easily manageing disk images, you can attach images quasi
on the fly; use of disk images over NFS is another very useful feature.
and so on.
So generally speaking, there are pros and contras for using a PC.
You forgot one thing: I personally do not differenciate between a PC and one of those
high performance single board toys. They have Ethernet. They can attach USB anything. They
run reasonably fast. They even can run big Linux distributions.
Why is everybody loving this raspberry pie (sic!) board?
Have never used mine. I prefer the beaglebone. Raspberry pi and it's Broadcom chip
are a bit too closed source for me. And it has nearly no expansion pins.
Philipp
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