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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (10 children)

Don't go for a Pi. They don't run stock Linux anyway.

I would get a board from pine64. There are also plenty of other options that are cheaper

Used mini PCs are also an option

[–] captain_aggravated 19 points 11 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I guess he means that raspberry pi doesn't run a mainline kernel

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Precisely. You can't just boot up any arm image

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is true with ARM in general. There's no "standard Linux" to boot because every board needs its own device tree and set of core kernel modules for detecting important things like local storage. It's fairly intractable due to how different the hardware is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've heard this argumane before but that doesn't change the fact that some socs work out of the box and require no proprietary software or custom configs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah for the majority of standardized hardware solutions sure. But the Pi is an one-off, as well as all the other single board computers. IANALOSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Wow, I was sure Raspberry Pi were pretty good about mainline support, especially since multiple distros support the platform.
Software support is still very good compared to pretty much every other arm board.

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