It's hard to follow your contributions to this list because you stick to top-posting, whereas everyone else keeps their replies and quotations in conversation order.
Please don't top-post here. Thanks. On Wednesday 12 Oct 2016 14:24:15 Andy Mender wrote: > 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 -- Rgds Peter
