Is he serious or just trolling? (He has previous form for trolling/having a laugh)
He seems quite serious. He mentions he has 12 stacks of 4 each of the Rpi devices, and another 20 around the house.
The real reason for the shortages is revealed!
Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
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#12What was the stated reason?
57:50 of the video. In effect, disillusion with Apple's direction.
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#13Raspbian* apparently. That's really interesting; even the highest tier Raspberry Pi still feels pretty sluggish as a desktop thanks to the limitations of SD card throughput/latency/queue depth/etc. I wonder what his usage looks like.
Runs on PCs so he's got options if he needs more power.
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#14"8GB ought to be enough for anybody" , I guess? Also, he said "Raspbian", rather than the "Raspberry Linux" in the title...which I don't think is a thing.
Raspbian and Raspberry Linux both refer to Raspberry Pi OS, which was renamed from Raspbian. [1]
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#15"8GB ought to be enough for anybody" , I guess? Also, he said "Raspbian", rather than the "Raspberry Linux" in the title...which I don't think is a thing.
Raspbian and Raspberry Linux both refer to Raspberry Pi OS, which was renamed from Raspbian. [1] [1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
I don't see the phrase "Raspberry Linux" in the linked page.
Google results only seems to show those words as a deliberate name for a few niche things like "RT Raspberry Linux". Meaning, I still don't think "Raspberry Linux" is a thing. HN should probably change the post title here.
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#16Is he serious or just trolling? (He has previous form for trolling/having a laugh)
He seems quite serious. He mentions he has 12 stacks of 4 each of the Rpi devices, and another 20 around the house.
Thanks.
That's a lot of devices. I've got six of the Model 4 Rpi and whilst they're fun to play with, they're not ideal in terms of their hardware and it's a pain trying to find a decent USB drive to boot them from to get decent performance (they'd be so much better with an M2 interface). The only one that I use regularly is one that I've got LibreElec installed on and running as a Kodi box.
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#17More developers should do this!
Why? If your software runs smoothly of. Raspberry Pi then you know it will fly on typical PCs.
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#18Raspbian* apparently. That's really interesting; even the highest tier Raspberry Pi still feels pretty sluggish as a desktop thanks to the limitations of SD card throughput/latency/queue depth/etc. I wonder what his usage looks like.
With the pi 4 you can boot off a USB3 drive like a SSD. I setup a 4gb memory model with SSD boot and it's a flawless little desktop--it runs full gnome and Ubuntu just fine. If you can get a 8gb memory model it would be perfect. I love it.
You literally lost perf by moving to ssd through USB
https://alexellisuk.medium.com/upgrade-your-raspberry-pi-4-w...
>Interestingly, the SD card gave a seemingly better buffered disk read than the M2 SATA SSD at 43.35 MB/sec
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#19Wasn't he using plan9?
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#20Raspbian* apparently. That's really interesting; even the highest tier Raspberry Pi still feels pretty sluggish as a desktop thanks to the limitations of SD card throughput/latency/queue depth/etc. I wonder what his usage looks like.
Runs on PCs so he's got options if he needs more power.
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