On 08/02/16 14:18, Gregory Nowak 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.

The RPi2 is a quite different beast, the OP was about the original chip.
Raspbian wheezy has lots of specific stuff for them, and a lot of work went into
it. I have found that compiling anything not in it from source is the way to go.

>
>
>> 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.

Yes, just the kind of use-case by someone experienced in the task that they are
great for. I have a few on the shelf in front of me now, but haven't used them
for a while.

Simon