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The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by trizic »

StudentStuff wrote: post #20
dtx1 wrote: post #11

I think the main issues with all of these rasbi alternatives is the software. As ... quirky ... as the rasbi is, the software support and optimisation is excellent. There are several speed comparisons on youtube where the rasbi beats a lot of the competition through sheer software optimisation. Honestly, without complete Upstream Kernel support and Open Sourcing of all necessary drivers, none of these Boards is reall…

Allwinner based boards have mainline kernel support for most features, they're one of a handful of vendors that has mainline support (primarily due to community efforts). I personally like the OrangePi boards due to price & reliability, easy to set and forget without worrying about mSD corruption. http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page is pretty useful for a list of boards and info.

What makes Allwinner based boards less likely to have mSD corruption over others?

Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by pritambaral »

StudentStuff wrote: post #20
dtx1 wrote: post #11

I think the main issues with all of these rasbi alternatives is the software. As ... quirky ... as the rasbi is, the software support and optimisation is excellent. There are several speed comparisons on youtube where the rasbi beats a lot of the competition through sheer software optimisation. Honestly, without complete Upstream Kernel support and Open Sourcing of all necessary drivers, none of these Boards is reall…

Allwinner based boards have mainline kernel support for most features, they're one of a handful of vendors that has mainline support (primarily due to community efforts). I personally like the OrangePi boards due to price & reliability, easy to set and forget without worrying about mSD corruption. http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page is pretty useful for a list of boards and info.

That hasn't been my experience during the design our last product. Allwinner was the vendor we had to pass on because their then-best-offering (H5) had poor mainline support and fragile, crappy code in the kernel dump. We decided to go with the slightly more expensive RPi 3B precisely because it had both usable mainline support and the handful of patches in the RaspberryPi Foundation's kernel were much better written and maintained.

Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by pritambaral »

bsder wrote: post #23

Is there a reason why everybody just HAS to stick to the RPi's when the BeagleBone Black/Green/Blue/etc. are: 1) Far more open (you can get documentation and chip supply to build your own BeagleBone) 2) No more expensive 3) Mainline Debian

1) Is actually more expensive than RPi 3s; and

2) Hasn't been updated in a while; thus

3) Lower RAM;

4) Lower perf;

Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by xienze »

bsder wrote: post #23

Is there a reason why everybody just HAS to stick to the RPi's when the BeagleBone Black/Green/Blue/etc. are: 1) Far more open (you can get documentation and chip supply to build your own BeagleBone) 2) No more expensive 3) Mainline Debian

Well, they are more expensive, though by just a little. The low price really seems to be the deciding factor for most people. I’m likewise baffled by the lack of popularity of some of these other boards. Thr RPi is honestly getting quite long in the tooth and just $10-15 more can get you a way better board.

Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by zeth___ »

dtx1 wrote: post #11

I think the main issues with all of these rasbi alternatives is the software. As ... quirky ... as the rasbi is, the software support and optimisation is excellent. There are several speed comparisons on youtube where the rasbi beats a lot of the competition through sheer software optimisation. Honestly, without complete Upstream Kernel support and Open Sourcing of all necessary drivers, none of these Boards is reall…

There's the olimex fully open source computers that have everything documented and don't need binary blobs to run.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/open-source-hardwa...

Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by opencl »

trizic wrote: post #31
StudentStuff wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Allwinner based boards have mainline kernel support for most features, they're one of a handful of vendors that has mainline support (primarily due to community efforts). I personally like the OrangePi boards due to price & reliability, easy to set and forget without worrying about mSD corruption. http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page is pretty useful for a list of boards and info.

What makes Allwinner based boards less likely to have mSD corruption over others?

The orangePi boards don't use microSD, they have built in eMMC storage. Far more reliable.

Re: The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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Post by vardump »

andrewstuart wrote: post #18

Whether or not ever more powerful Raspberry Pi computers is a good thing depends on why you are using them. If you're wanting to put it to some practical application then probably more power is better. If, like me, it's a hobby, and you enjoy the idea of tiny machines, and the challenge of pushing a computer to do things a resource constrained environment, then tiny and powerful machines like RPi that can run full Li…

> So for the hobbyist wanting to be challenged, tiny machines/CPUs like the esp8266 and esp32 are where the fun is really at.

While I agree with you, ESP32 is over 1000 times more powerful than C64 and has more RAM than unexpanded Amiga 500. (Can't wait when my ESP32 arrives in mail soon. :-))

Doom for ESP32 (running from RAM connected over SPI of all things...!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_JFDa0AIo

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