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