25 Feb
2013
25 Feb
'13
2:20 p.m.
On 25 Feb 2013 18:26, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
The talk about the Acorn and RISC OS reminds me that I've been interested
in
one of these, primarily to run RISC OS. What is the recommended
version, price, and place to get a Raspberry Pi from?
I assume I want a "2.0 Model B 512Mb"? I've found a seller on eBay with
this and they include a case for $57.
If you want to keep it super cheap, try to find a Linux user upgrading to
the 512MB version. 256MB is a vast amount of RAM for Risc OS, whereas it is
not enough for a graphical Linux desktop. You really don't need half a gig
for Risc OS, unless of course you want to run Linux as well.
25 Feb
25 Feb
2:48 p.m.
On Feb 25, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 25 Feb 2013 18:26, "Zane H. Healy"
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Well, a modern one, anyway. I remember running KDE quite happily
in 32 MB on a 486 a long time ago. I would love if someone would
make a lightweight, POSIX-compliant OS for old desktops, because
even the formerly lightweight BSDs make my older machines crawl,
and that's without graphics. I'd like an OS that's compatible
with the modern world but which lets me put old/small machines to
serious use, a la Classilla.
I guess the Open Source credo would tell me to suck it up and
make my own. Push another idea on the stack that never gets
popped, I guess...
- Dave
The talk about the Acorn and RISC OS reminds me that I've been interested
in
one of these, primarily to run RISC OS. What is the recommended
version, price, and place to get a Raspberry Pi from?
I assume I want a "2.0 Model B 512Mb"? I've found a seller on eBay with
this and they include a case for $57.
If you want to keep it super cheap, try to find a Linux user upgrading to
the 512MB version. 256MB is a vast amount of RAM for Risc OS, whereas it is
not enough for a graphical Linux desktop. 
4:18 p.m.
On 02/25/2013 01:20 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 25 Feb 2013 18:26, "Zane H. Healy"
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Yes, that would be my thought, too. I don't particularly care about the
extra RAM, but having Ethernet is a must (for me). Actually,
relatively-recent Slackwares run quite happily on my old Thinkpad with
(IIRC) 192MB, so I'd assume that 256MB is plenty on the Pi for Linux so
long as it's not running anything too bloated.
I can't remember now; does the 'Pi have RS232 built in (poss. with the
addition of external line drivers)?
cheers
Jules
The talk about the Acorn and RISC OS reminds me that I've been interested
in
one of these, primarily to run RISC OS. What is the recommended
version, price, and place to get a Raspberry Pi from?
I assume I want a "2.0 Model B 512Mb"? I've found a seller on eBay with
this and they include a case for $57.
If you want to keep it super cheap, try to find a Linux user upgrading to
the 512MB version. 256MB is a vast amount of RAM for Risc OS, whereas it is
not enough for a graphical Linux desktop. You really don't need half a gig
for Risc OS, unless of course you want to run Linux as well. 
4:33 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/25/2013 01:20 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Yes, that would be my thought, too. I don't particularly care about the
extra RAM, but having Ethernet is a must (for me).
All "B" models have Ethernet; The "A" model will not have it.
Actually,
relatively-recent Slackwares run quite happily on my old Thinkpad with
(IIRC) 192MB, so I'd assume that 256MB is plenty on the Pi for Linux so long
as it's not running anything too bloated.
Raspbian is a debian flavor for Pi. The 'bloat' would be when you
want to run Java apps under X...
I can't remember now; does the 'Pi have RS232
built in (poss. with the
addition of external line drivers)?
There is a connector for a serial port. It's 3.3V levels (like all
the other I/O pins), so you need suitable line drivers. It will even
work as a serial console if you so desire. You can use one of the
3.3V FTDI cables or roll your own circuit with discrete components or
a Dallas-Maxim chip.
-ethan
5:16 p.m.
Ethan Dicks [ethan.dicks at gmail.com] wrote:
Raspbian is a debian flavor for Pi. The 'bloat' would be
when you want to run Java apps under X...
Mine's a happy bunny:
[
$ uname -a
Linux arpione 3.1.9+ #168 PREEMPT Sat Jul 14 18:56:31 BST 2012 armv6l
GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 220592 kB
]
I keep (some of my) my electronic notes on it, use it for developing
handy ruby scripts and keep a simple webserver running on it. I'm using
git and periodically pushing to a NAS box. It's a DNS server for the
home network. It will eventually be a NIS server too (so I can set up an
environment like the one at work with "single sign on"). If I go ahead
and get a second one to use as a media treamer for the TV, I'll probably
use this one (256MiB) for the media and the new one (512MiB) as the
household workhorse.
Zane H. Healy [healyzh at aracnet.com] wrote:
I'd want the option of putting Linux on there.
Though my current
UNIX box only has 256Mb. :-) Realistically I'll probably see about
turning it into a PDP-11 or PDP-10 after I play with RISC OS for an
hour or two.
I've got as far as installing SIMH on mine. I've not yet grabbed a VMS
ISO so that I can actually boot a VAX (yet ...).
Too many projects, too little time ...
Antonio
arcarlini at iee.org
5:59 p.m.
At 10:16 PM +0000 2/25/13, <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
Zane H. Healy [healyzh at aracnet.com] wrote:
Looking at the info on the Raspberry Pi website, it looks like the
CPU is equivalent to about a Pentium II 300Mhz. That would give it
about 1.5x the speed of a KL10 under KLH10, or maybe 2x a fast PDP-11
under E11 or SIMH, I suspect it would still be slower than a
VAX-11/725, VAX-11/730, or MicroVAX I. I think an Atom board would
be the minimum for VAX emulation.
Zane
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I'd want the option of putting Linux on
there. Though my current
UNIX box only has 256Mb. :-) Realistically I'll probably see about
turning it into a PDP-11 or PDP-10 after I play with RISC OS for an
hour or two.
I've got as far as installing SIMH on mine. I've not yet grabbed a VMS
ISO so that I can actually boot a VAX (yet ...).
Too many projects, too little time ... 
6:08 p.m.
New subject: Raspberry Pi (off topic)
On 2/25/2013 2:16 PM, arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
I keep (some of my) my electronic notes on it
If
you do keep these sorts of services on the device, recall that SD
failure modes tend to be horrible and unrecoverable. they simply
brick. Hopefully you can periodically back it up, or spend the extra to
have a duplicate for when that might happen.
I'm running 64gb in both of mine and they run quite well. I'm not
hosting any data on them however that I can't replace by duplicating the
other PI's chip.
I'm actually thinking about shifting to the Odroid 1.7ghz Exynos 4412,
both because it will run android and because it is in my phone (Galaxy
Note II). I want both Linux for my development and some media usage,
whith XBMC and with the Android Jelly bean for other media uses in the
house and elsewhere.
I am hosting some emulators on the PI, but will probably move them to
the odroid if it proves to be fast enough. Object is to reduce the
house intel server population to just one vmesxi system.
thanks
Jim
current Pi population
raspian on a Pi version B x 2
Linux pi 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
MemTotal: 448996 kB
rootfs 59G 2.8G 53G 6% /
26 Feb
26 Feb
2:37 p.m.
Yes, that would be my thought, too. I don't
particularly care about the
extra RAM, but having Ethernet is a must (for me). Actually,
While only yhr Model B Rpi has on-board ethernet, I am pretty sure it's a
USB to tthernet device hung off a USB port on the SoaC. I am also prtty
sure you can sue a USB ethernet thingy with a mdoel A if you want to
I can't remember now; does the 'Pi have RS232
built in (poss. with the
addition of external line drivers)?
To be pedantic, no. TO be practical, yes.
There is an asynchronosu serial port on 2 pins of the GPIO connecotr.
It's not RS232, it's 3.3V logic levels. But you can easily buffer it
(MAX3232 IC) to RS232 levels. The Rpi can use that as a serial console
too. By default it runs at 15200 baud (something which is very PC
speciifc, nd a ridiculous choice fothe default), but you cna set it to
just about any seped in one of the oconfiguration files.
-tony
4:09 p.m.
New subject: OT: Linux-to-OpenBSD device drivers
This is way off-topic, but maybe someone has run into this problem.
I have a server here running OpenBSD (x86 32-bit) and I don't want to
change the OS, but I would like to add a Linksys USB-to-Ethernet adapter
(2f09). Said adapter comes with the source to a Linux driver, but I've
never worked at the driver level in OpenBSD.
Does anyone know how difficult it would be to modify/recompile the Linux
source to work in OpenBSD?
Thanks,
Chuck
4:38 p.m.
New subject: OT: Linux-to-OpenBSD device drivers
On Feb 26, 2013, at 4:09 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
This is way off-topic, but maybe someone has run into
this problem.
I have a server here running OpenBSD (x86 32-bit) and I don't want to change the OS,
but I would like to add a Linksys USB-to-Ethernet adapter (2f09). Said adapter comes with
the source to a Linux driver, but I've never worked at the driver level in OpenBSD.
Does anyone know how difficult it would be to modify/recompile the Linux source to work
in OpenBSD?
They're quite different, though having the driver as a guide to how
to use the hardware is handy in the absence of a datasheet. Are
you sure there's not already a driver? I don't see "2f09" as a
Linksys product, but this would suggest that there is at least
partially-working support for the 300M, which seems to be their
currently-available adaptor:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/21147
Most commercial USB->[Ethernet|WiFi] adaptors use one of a small
handful of common chips, and OpenBSD is generally fairly good about
driver support for them. You may find that the driver you seek is
already available, though you may need to update to a newer OpenBSD
version to find it.
tl;dr It's not an easy drop-in to run a Linux driver from source on
OpenBSD. Better to find an existing one.
- Dave
6:03 p.m.
New subject: OT: Linux-to-OpenBSD device drivers
On 02/26/2013 01:38 PM, David Riley wrote:
They're quite different, though having the driver
as a guide to how
to use the hardware is handy in the absence of a datasheet. Are
you sure there's not already a driver? I don't see "2f09" as a
Linksys product, but this would suggest that there is at least
partially-working support for the 300M, which seems to be their
currently-available adaptor:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/21147
Most commercial USB->[Ethernet|WiFi] adaptors use one of a small
handful of common chips, and OpenBSD is generally fairly good about
driver support for them. You may find that the driver you seek is
already available, though you may need to update to a newer OpenBSD
version to find it.
tl;dr It's not an easy drop-in to run a Linux driver from source on
OpenBSD. Better to find an existing one.
Here's what lsusb gives me (extraneous endpoint information elided):
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 066b:20f9 Linksys, Inc.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bDeviceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x066b Linksys, Inc.
idProduct 0x20f9
bcdDevice 0.01
iManufacturer 1
iProduct 2
iSerial 3
I can find nothing on the web about this thing other than a couple of
mentions about not being able to find drivers. If necessary, I can
crack the thing open and see what's on the PCB.
--Chuck
6:19 p.m.
New subject: OT: Linux-to-OpenBSD device drivers
On 02/26/2013 01:38 PM, David Riley wrote:
tl;dr It's not an easy drop-in to run a Linux driver from source on
OpenBSD. Better to find an existing one.
I'll see what I can do--a little messing around and the thing seems to
be known as a "HG20f9". XP found a driver for it right away--and it
appears that the Debian people have heard of it as well (there's a
driver on Github).
I'll look through some of the OpenBSD drivers and see if I can find
something close to hack up.
--Chuck
25 Feb
25 Feb
4:29 p.m.
At 7:20 PM +0000 2/25/13, Liam Proven wrote:
On 25 Feb 2013 18:26, "Zane H. Healy"
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I'd want the option of putting Linux on there. Though my current
UNIX box only has 256Mb. :-) Realistically I'll probably see about
turning it into a PDP-11 or PDP-10 after I play with RISC OS for an
hour or two.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Photographer |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| My flickr Photostream |
| http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |
| My Photography Website |
| http://www.zanesphotography.com |
The talk about the Acorn and RISC OS reminds me that I've been interested
in
one of these, primarily to run RISC OS. What is the recommended
version, price, and place to get a Raspberry Pi from?
I assume I want a "2.0 Model B 512Mb"? I've found a seller on eBay with
this and they include a case for $57.
If you want to keep it super cheap, try to find a Linux user upgrading to
the 512MB version. 256MB is a vast amount of RAM for Risc OS, whereas it is
not enough for a graphical Linux desktop. You really don't need half a gig
for Risc OS, unless of course you want to run Linux as well.
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