On Wed, 8/5/15, Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the big advantage of the Rpi or Rpi2 (for speed, > memory and cores)is that there's a wealth of published > projects for them, including hardware ones, and other stuff, > and they aren't likely to go away. It's true that lacking SATA > and Gb Ether makes it harderto use them for certain applications > (except as demos, alhough there's a Kickstarter project for > mSATA),but if you're doing Computing in the Small both SATA > and Gb are perhaps optional.
I am kind of leaning toward the RPi at the moment for reasons very much along those lines. Though I'm probably going to order at least a Banana Pi for my own playing around. If I read their propaganda correctly, it should run the OS images that the RPi does. If so, I'm really curious to see how close Richard's Plan9 image comes to running on it. And I do still need to do some playing with the BBB I recently got. In terms of the RPi though, as of yesterday, my auth server is now running on an RPi, replacing a nearly 20 year old NEC laptop. > I'm glad you asked, though, because I hadn't seen the APC Paper. It is a really cute little machine. I'm tempted to get one of those to play with too. Too many toys, too little time... BLS
