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Don't need display port, GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPIO pins, etc - just a CPU + lots of RAM + an ethernet port to get stuff in/out.
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…
> without complete Upstream Kernel support and Open Sourcing of all necessary drivers, none of these Boards is really useful.
it's not clear if you refer to SBCs in general, or Pi alternatives. nonetheless, essentially all of them have Linux support (at least, Armbian support); of course, having upstream support would make them more usable, but this is different from "useful".
Some more cheap SBCs from my bookmarks: - BananaPi (Allwinner, MediaTek): http://www.banana-pi.org/ - Le Potato (Amlogic) and Renegate (Rockchip): https://libre.computer/ - NanoPi (Samsung, Allwinner) : http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/category&... - OLinuXino (open hardware, Allwinner A20, A64, etc, iMX, Ralink): https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/ - Odroid (Amlogic, Samsung): http://www.har…
Any of those x86? or is that mutually exclusive with "cheap"?
Maybe someone can help: is it possible to build an SBC can boot Linux and has just a CPU, gig ethernet and gobs of RAM (at least 8gb)? Don't need display port, GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPIO pins, etc - just a CPU + lots of RAM + an ethernet port to get stuff in/out.
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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.
In my experience SD cards are much slower but more reliable and easier to manage (backups and such).
Some more cheap SBCs from my bookmarks: - BananaPi (Allwinner, MediaTek): http://www.banana-pi.org/ - Le Potato (Amlogic) and Renegate (Rockchip): https://libre.computer/ - NanoPi (Samsung, Allwinner) : http://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/category&... - OLinuXino (open hardware, Allwinner A20, A64, etc, iMX, Ralink): https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/ - Odroid (Amlogic, Samsung): http://www.har…
Don’t forget the Espressobin: http://espressobin.net/
Being 15 dollars more expensive breaks the whole purpose of having a descent, small and cheap computer/board as the RPi has been all this time.
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Any of those x86? or is that mutually exclusive with "cheap"?
x86 is mutually exclusive with 'well designed'. Arm slightly less so, especially v8, although GPUs are all still 'secret sauce' (except newer nvidia I read). I'd really like to switch everything from x86 to arm sooner than later.
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> The RPi people quote this incessantly casually leaving out the fact that the BeagleBone already includes 4GB eMMC (a uSD card is at least $5) > Less RAM but FASTER RAM. RPi3 is DDR2 vs BeagleBone Black's DDR3. Most people buying don't notice such things. Also, the BBB is at-least $10 more expensive. > In addition, people just blithely skip past the whole closed nature of the Broadcom SoC. If you are serious about c…
> In fact, I'm currently supporting a product shipping with the RPi 3B in quantities large enough to qualify as "real quantities". How did you get pricing and volume from Broadcom? I'm genuinely interested as that stopped a project I was working on completely cold. We simply couldn't get them to care about 1K-2K parts.