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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time?

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On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:48:00 -0700, pureheart wrote:

> On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 2:13:54 AM UTC-7, William Unruh wrote:
>> On 2015-07-19,  snip  wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> > After reading up a bit on the Raspberry Pi, single board computer, I
>> > wonder if anyone is using such a thing as their daily machine and how
>> > it fares, if so.
>> >
>> >
>> Many many people are usingthem. But for what do you want it. It has no
>> display, it has no hard drive-- just cards.
>> 
>> > There end up to be a *lot* of SBC's out there, but specifically, I'm
>> > thinking about some like:
>> > Raspberry Pi 2 Banana pi Beaglebone Black Hummingboard
>> >
>> > One of these with a solid state drive (I assume that's what SATA
>> > means in the specs of all these things....a drive connector....I'm
>> > way behind on my acroynyms and still don't know what DPMI stands for
>> > w/o a look at a search engine).
>> 
>> Search engines are easy.
>> 
>> So if you were a bit more forthcoming as to what you wanted to do, you
>> might get better answers.
>> 
>> 
>> > Any comments?
>> >
>> > pH
> 
> Thanks for all the information from everyone.
> My intent would be just to have the fun of bringing it up from scratch
> and then just use it for day to day browsing/email/youtubing, etc.
> 
> Kind of like a homemade Mac Mini.
> I would add a monitor, printer, keyboard, etc, and just run it, although
> Robert Heller says he has one w/ NO monitor, keyboard.
> 
> Does that mean he has to remotely shell into it....and if so, what does
> he see? A command line or a gui?  I guess it matters what is installed.
> 
> Separate question.  What good is Android for an OS since I understand
> that it is normally used on cellular phones.  Hmmm.
> 
> Anywwy...short answer: to play with and use a "daily driver" if it would
> have adequate performance.  I don't play games and am not particularly
> impatient.
> 
> pH

The RPi model 2 would be a resonable performer. Note that they come with 
no power supply, no case, etc. though adafruit.com and other folks have 
packages.

Yes, it is possible to log in remotely from another computer. What you 
see will depend on how you do it - there are several methods. There are 
several OS implementations available - raspbian (a Debian optimized for 
RPi) is most used.

Other response: so Android is 'normally' used on smart phones. So what? 
It's also used on a number of tablets and the related Chrome OS is used 
on Chromebooks. It's quite functional.

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Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-19 10:54 -0700
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-19 14:00 -0500
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-07-19 12:27 -0700
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-19 21:14 +0000
    Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-19 18:21 -0500
      Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-07-20 05:15 +0200
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 12:54 -0400
          Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 12:28 -0500
            Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 13:44 -0400
              Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 17:03 -0500
                Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 00:28 +0100
    Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-07-20 07:55 +0200
  Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-07-20 09:12 +0000
    Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-20 13:48 -0700
      Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-20 21:35 +0000
      Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 17:03 -0500
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 00:30 +0100
          Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 20:12 -0500
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 12:07 +0000
        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-08-14 21:26 -0700
          Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-08-15 08:21 -0500

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