Re: rPI Goes Public

From	D <nospam@example.net>
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Subject	Re: rPI Goes Public
Date	2024-07-02 11:47 +0200
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, 26xh.0712 wrote:

> On 6/29/24 4:11 PM, D wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:02:18 -0400, 26xh.0712 wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>    So, for now, I'm into Arch derivatives. Manjaro is now very good but
>>>>    there are a couple others I'd consider. My one gripe with Manjaro is
>>>>    the update model ... which quickly gets to basically reloading the
>>>>    entire 2+gb system, rather like Tumbleweed, and that takes time and
>>>>    bites into the monthly data allotment.
>>> 
>>> I avoided the Red Hat family after the gcc 2.96 fiaso in the early '2000s
>>> but recently gave Fedora a shot on one of my backup machines. I knew what
>>> i was getting into but the KDE spin 40 has a huge number of updates.
>>> They've even managed to copy the Windows 'Don't turn you machine off'
>>> message.
>>> 
>>>>    Clearly boards like BeeLink and BMax fit into a different niche from
>>>>    Pi's - for some apps you WANT all those I/O pins and there's no
>>>>    substitute. However I had been using Pi's for apps that did not need
>>>>    those pins. Pi5/WORM has forced me to a fork in the road, Pi doesn't
>>>>    do it all anymore.
>>> 
>>> I've got a few Pico Ws and may go the route of using one Pico as the
>>> loader/debugger for the target Pico to get around the pin problem with a
>>> conventional Linux box. They're cheap enough.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm using the radxa zero for kodi with debian bookworm. Works flawlessly 
>> and the small radxa zero has more than enough power to make x265 and 1080p 
>> run smoothly on the TV. =)
>
>  Glad SOMETHING works on WORM ...
>
>  IMHO it's been contaminated by Canonical rejects and
>  was released WAY too early. FAR too many utterly
>  POINTLESS changes that do NOT improve usability or
>  security or anything. Deb should go back one or two
>  steps and then advance from that paradigm. From Deb
>  we expect SOLID and TRADITIONAL Linux. Let others
>  try all the weird stuff.
>

Interesting. I was completely unaware of that. Could you give me some 
examples of what they did? Note that I don't have any graphical 
environment, only the server, an extra codec repository from where I also 
got kodi.

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                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-28 17:32 +0000
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                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-28 17:56 +0000
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                Re: rPI Goes Public The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-29 10:25 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-06-29 12:35 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-29 17:48 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-29 10:21 +0100
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                Re: rPI Goes Public Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> - 2024-06-28 13:35 -0700
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-06-29 01:02 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-06-29 07:11 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-06-29 22:11 +0200
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-07-02 03:00 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-07-02 11:47 +0200
                Re: rPI Goes Public "26xh.0712" <26xh.0713@e6t5y.net> - 2024-07-02 02:55 -0400
                Re: rPI Goes Public Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-07-22 00:07 +0000
                Re: rPI Goes Public The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-29 10:20 +0100
                Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-17 00:35 +0100
        Re: rPI Goes Public Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-06-14 09:34 +0100
          Re: rPI Goes Public Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> - 2024-06-15 00:15 +0100

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