Dear Daniel, You're correct, Arduino is for tech projects. Not much of an actual "computer", because both the processor and amount of RAM are too weak. However, there is a new board that supposedly runs a full-blown FreeBSD 3.x version. Cannot find a link to the blog entry now, sorry :(.
I would recommend taking a look at the Beaglebone Black boards. In some cases they're more potent than a standard Raspberry Pi. Since you mentioned being FSF friendly, does Raspberry not use a Broadcom chip for graphics? The default will almost always be some sort of Debian-based distro. There is a Gentoo ARM project, so you could have a look whether it complies with your expectations :). Best regards, Andy Mender On 12 October 2016 at 13:56, Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> wrote: > My birthday's coming up in 10 days and my SO and others are wanting to > know what to get me for my birthday. I'm slowly growing tired of trying > to keep my desktop Gentoo machine lightweight and "clean", so it'd be > fun to hack on a little computer that I could possibly DIY a case or > other arrangement for. Maybe a file/web server, or a "freetoo" machine > where I can experiment with being rigidly FSF-APPROVED or other fun > shenanigans. > > I've looked around at the Raspberry Pi 3, the Pocket CHIP (I also have > PICO-8 and am hacking something for it), the Pi Zero, and have heard > about the Beaglebone and Arduino, though isn't the latter meant for more > interactive or robotic thing due to the large array of IO pins? > > If I had the right tools or gadgets, creating my own UMPC would be > really fun. > > At a minimum, I would prefer HDMI instead of composite or VGA, though it > could be headless and I just use SSH or an Adafruit LCD. > > Any opinions or use cases and stories would be much appreciated. I would > prefer running Gentoo on it, but Debian, Mint, or Slackware would be > tolerable. > -- > Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer > OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net > fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 > >
