I have 3 raspberry pi's original B, B+, 2 B (quad)
I'm using the B+ as a headless server for apt-cacher, I use for live-build's
The 2 B I'm going to make a lightweight desktop, as it's better spec'd than
my netbook and used less power.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Gregory Nowak <greg@???> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:27:19PM +1100, Simon Wise wrote:
> > raspbian is in between armel and armhf because debian armel is (or
> > was then) compiled without hard float support while debian armhf is
> > compiled for arm7 ... so since PIs are arm6 with FPU neither is
> > suitable
>
> Just to be clear, the rpi2 is based on a ARMv7. My rpi2 is running
> devuan jessie nicely, as I have posted here a few months ago.
>
>
> > It
> > can also be used by experienced people willing to put time into
> > making a single purpose kiosk style setup. But anyone hoping for a
> > cheap, open general computer will be frustrated. It is quite a good
> > learning tool though, since the community is big and helpful.
>
> I think that depends on what one expects. If someone gets one of
> these, and hopes it can replace a modern desktop/laptop, then that
> person will indeed be frustrated. I wanted to use mine as a router
> possibly running i2p and freenet as well, and I thought when I was
> getting it I had a good understanding of its limitations. It does the
> router part very well as I expected. It ran i2p well enough also,
> though I have since transferred that to my laptop for reasons unrelated
> to performance. The freenet node ran fine when it was idle. However
> putting some downloads in the queue made the freenet node slow to
> respond, and it crashed once a day or so.. I had hoped all of that
> would be otherwise, but am not surprised by the reality of things. The
> main job for my rpi2 is to be a router, and it does that very well so far.
>
> Greg
>
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