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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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Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer |
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OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net |
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fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 |
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