[9fans] x86 alternative to rPi

2016-09-28 Thread arnold
FYI folks. http://betanews.com/2016/09/22/solidrun-x86-braswell-microsom-linux-windows-10-raspberry-pi/ Arnold

Re: [9fans] x86 alternative to rPi

2016-09-28 Thread Shane Morris
+1. Its not exactly RPi form factor, meaning I can't stuff a whole heap of the boards in something like this: http://my.bitscope.com/store/?p=view&i=item+6 But I'm sure it'd be bloody brilliant as a supervisory computer on a rover robot or something similar, likely low powered enough to not smas

[9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing

2016-09-28 Thread Marshall Conover
Hi all! As an awful person, I hacked rio's data.c to support backgrounds. Because the default code took a 1-by-1 pixel grey image and tiled it, I just shoved a line in there to load an image file instead using readimage(). (Hacked really is the appropriate word here.) My question is, would the pl

Re: [9fans] The correct way to do an incorrect thing

2016-09-28 Thread Erik Quanstrom
a plan 9 thing would be to use /usr/$user/lib/acmebg and call it a day. On Sep 28, 2016 4:07 PM, Marshall Conover wrote:Hi all!As an awful person, I hacked rio's data.c to support backgrounds. Because the default code took a 1-by-1 pixel grey image and tiled it, I just shoved a line in there to lo