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"within the country"? :-) You must be American? |
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On 2020-03-01 16:38, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 2/29/20 11:13 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out |
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>> there. |
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>> I am using a number of odroid devices, including an N2 with a gentoo |
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>> based kernel and a gentoo aarch64 userland. Its used for lxc containers |
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>> for asterisk, dns, webdav, mail, calendaring and web running on the N2 |
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>> backed by an Odroid HC2 moosefs cluster (though I am using an intel |
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>> powered Odroid H2 for the master). |
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>> Its all working rather well now the initial install/config stages are |
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>> over. Part of the gain over the pi's is the use of eMMC storage over |
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>> sdcards - almost 5 times faster in my tests. The 4G of ram has proven |
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>> quite adequate so far - even the asterisk latency is better than my |
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>> previous QEMU/KVM on intel setup. |
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>> I have currently have rpi 1B, 3B and a zero and while the specs for the |
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>> rpi4 are better ... its not the best out there. |
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>> BillK |
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> I am aware of other devices but the RPi (afaict) is the only one sold |
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> within the country and not subject to import duty/fees/taxes and the |
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> related shipping delays because of those. :( |
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> Dan |
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