The headline gave me hope. Alas no button on the front for overclocking. I am wistfully disappointed.
Really? Build a button yourself to overlock! The Pi is about giving you the tools, now, go forth and build.
Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. The Pi makes a lot of sense for a simple web server with a robust SQL/NOSQL database backend running with Node/Go. If you have a good internet connection with a good upload speed, you can easily run a server able to take a couple of hundred hits a minute. It is certainly a better option than using the cloud for prototyping, where a wrong for loop can instantiate loads of instances and bill you a hell lot.
The Pi does not make sense for any level of consumer-targeted production (dev, stage or live) beyond "oh hey, it works." "A couple of hundred hits a minute" is also not impressive in the least, even for something of the Pi's stature. I also don't think the stack would matter all that much at this point - IO blocking would be happening at the application level, not the architectural. Node, Go, Ruby, Python, PHP ... it…
OTOH you could front a pi-based server with Pagekite (pagekite.net) and get the best of both worlds.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the same: Broadcom is still the non-datasheet-releasing, our-chips-implementing-standard-phy-spec functionality are subject to manhattan-project secrecy, assholes.
Why are they required to release those datasheets?
they aren't required, but without it, the few hobbyist trying to make Linux work on it will have to devote 10x hours instead of x. that is all fine for broadcom. but you're doing a disservice to those developers and to you by supporting and popularizing this board, because if you supported a open one you would now have 10 chips with Linux support instead. or some other feature you are waiting or something so cool and futuristic that you can't even imagine will never happen because those folks were doing the tedious task of supporting a closed platform that unfortunately became popular.
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#95Well well. I'm going to hold off an wait until someone can benchmark this against the ODROID-C1, though, largely because the original Pi design had a few shortcuts and I'd like to avoid any teething issues (been using ODROIDs for a while, got full hardware support in Ubuntu and Android and don't have to put up with Debian 7.x).
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#96How does this compare with the ODROID-C1? http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code...
The ODROID-C1 looks very nice. My main hesitations would be available drivers and community size. They may have drivers for everything, I don't know. It is nice to see that a somewhat recent kernel is available though (3.10). I recently ported several projects I had from beaglebone black to an Olinuxino A10 Lime. A lot of stuff was relatively painless, but I was never able to get Node.js to install. I also got bit in…
> not checking something because you fear the community is small
that's like voting for the two major parties "to not waste your vote". sigh.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use the onboard ethernet pretty constantly, mainly because I find the wireless to be finicky and hard to troubleshoot when you're running a headless setup. I can always plug in an ethernet cable, though...
Agree. However Finally I was able to keep an uptime greater than 2 months on my Pi by using a wifi dongle and a bunch of cron scripts to keep alive the connection when my router reboots or the dongle 'freezes' which seems is a common issue when using RPi of any kind :(
that's probably a bad dongle.
i connect my htpc via a Wi-Fi USB dongle as well. it runs both Linux and windows 7. and despite the os and drivers one model always hang after a day or so. another one, different model from same brand is online for months at a time.
it's mostly badly designed/tested hardware.
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#98Why would anyone buy this over the much more powerful ARMv7 odroid-C1 for $35 that has been out for months now?
There are many reasons. The large community that is involved with the Pi. The large number of tutorials, and guides available. The incredible amount of accessories available and customized for the Pi. The Pi has the momentum. The odroid-C1 may be fantastic, but it's the first time I've ever heard of it.
I hesitate to chime in, but in the interest of completeness:
The Odroids all use Mali graphics. Mali isn't particularly worse than the Pi's VideoCore IV, but it's not particularly better either...
And the BeagleBone vs Pi comparison here is worth reading: http://section9.choamco.com/2012/07/beagleboard-vs-beagleboa...
P.S. I double-checked that the Odroids are all shipping with Mali. Happy to be proven wrong though. Does anyone know of similar-priced dev boards from Qualcomm? Qualcomm's Adreno is definitely the most interesting GPU architecture in this space. Adreno is an anagram of Radeon.
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#99Am I weird for wanting to use this for really simple web hosting?
Not particularly - there are several datacenters that offer raspberry pi servers as a commercial offering. I can't remember the name of the one near me (had a slick photo of black and green pi cases on their dc floor), but a little googling found this one: http://raspberrycolocation.com/
hosting pis without needing/being able to access gpio and such is a silly marketing fad. it must be so ineffective in term of space and heat that i would be surprised that they have a single beefy server running several pis in emulation for the clients.
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#100Any news if the Raspbery Pi 2 will have USB 3.0 ports? That seems to be a good selling point for the Odroid XU3 currently...
USB 3.0 ports would mean better performance as NAS or multimedia recording solution, as well as alleviating some of the current troubles with usb performance.