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On 12/10/2016 13:56, Daniel Campbell 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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Those devices are dirt cheap, ask for one of each :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |