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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time?

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At Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:30:32 +0100 The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> 
> On 20/07/15 23:03, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:48:00 -0700 (PDT) pureheart@pacbell.net 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.
> >
> > By default one gets a bash shell when one slogins in, although I installed tcsh
> > so *I* get a tcsh shell. I suppose if I really wanted to, I could install
> > something like vncserver or some such (and no, *I *don't want or need that).
> > *I* don't use the 'default' account (pi), I created my own username (heller)
> > and so on, giving me a shell environment similar to what I have on my other
> > machines (CentOS 5 on my desktop, CentOS 6 on my laptop). Presently I am only
> > using it as a build box (eg ./configure and make, etc.). I have thought about
> > using the I/O pins to control things on a model railroad.
> >
> > I just use ssh/slogin/scp as needed.
> >
> >>
> >> Separate question. What good is Android for an OS since I understand that it
> >> is normally used on cellular phones. Hmmm.
> >
> > Android == Linux + GUI front end.
> > ChromOS == Linux + GUI front end.
> > iOS     == BSD (Dawrin) + GUI front end.
> > MacOSX  == BSD (Dawrin) + GUI front end.
> >
> > The difference between Android and ChromOS is that Android's GUI is optimized
> > for a touch screen and ChromOS's GUI is optimized for a 'traditional'
> > mouse+keyboard with a non-touch screen.
> >
> > The difference between iOS and MacOSX is that iOS's  GUI is optimized for a
> > touch screen and MacOSX's GUI is optimized for a 'traditional' mouse+keyboard
> > with a non-touch screen.
> >
> > (Yes, the above two statements are identical, except for the 'OS' names.  That
> > was intentional.)
> >
> Was mispelling 'Darwin'  (twice) intentional?

I flunked spelling.  English orthography is mostly crazy, esp. for words that 
are not base level Anglo Saxon words...

> 

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Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-19 10:54 -0700
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  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
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              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
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        Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-08-14 21:26 -0700
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