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From: Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Small computing recommendations?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:34:46
Message-Id: 1476290076.9229.18.camel@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Small computing recommendations? by Andy Mender
1 On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 14:24 +0200, Andy Mender wrote:
2 > Dear Daniel,
3 >
4 > You're correct, Arduino is for tech projects. Not much of an actual
5 > "computer",
6 > because both the processor and amount of RAM are too weak. However,
7 > there is
8 > a new board that supposedly runs a full-blown FreeBSD 3.x version.
9 > Cannot find
10 > a link to the blog entry now, sorry :(.
11 >
12 > I would recommend taking a look at the Beaglebone Black boards. In
13 > some cases
14 > they're more potent than a standard Raspberry Pi. Since you mentioned
15 > being FSF
16 > friendly, does Raspberry not use a Broadcom chip for graphics?
17
18 Mesa now supports the Broadcom VC4 chip.  Check out the github link
19 below for more info.
20
21 https://github.com/anholt/mesa/wiki/VC4
22
23 >
24 > The default will almost always be some sort of Debian-based distro.
25 > There is a Gentoo
26 > ARM project, so you could have a look whether it complies with your
27 > expectations :).
28 >
29 > Best regards,
30 > Andy Mender 
31 >
32
33 Alecks