Is anyone running a webserver or mailserver over the Pi? Curious to know how it holds up.
My RPI number 2 runs owncloud+nginx and Bittorrent sync. Well it's not fast but i can live with it. PHP-APC helped a lot.
Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
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Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The use case of the Pi is a computer that can be given to small children to be theirs , to be a counterpart to the BBC Micro of thirty years ago. It's also an attempt to get right what the OLPC people got wrong (too expensive, too different from all other systems). It has to have a decent display, which really rules out microcontrollers (an early prototype was indeed an AVR that ran Lua and output composite video). I…
> The use case of the Pi is a computer that can be given to small > children to be theirs, I completely agree with this part... > to be a counterpart to the BBC Micro of thirty years ago. But I don't really agree with this part. The BBC Micro was much more expensive in real terms when it launched, and never got down to an equivalent price during its lifespan. Only when it became a hand-me-down, replaced by something…
Well yes, we've had 30 years of cost reduction, but "play the same social role as the BBC Micro in computer education in the UK" was the goal of the Foundation.
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The Pi makes a fantastic media center when combined with XBMC.
"Fantastic" may be overstating it. I've been running Raspbmc for about 15 months now, and although the video rendering is very good, the XMBC UI is a bit laggy and unresponsive (although there seems to have been an improvement recently). I've also used it as an SFTP client and to run a few light cron jobs (rock solid there). Given the price, I am pleased with it, but I wouldn't recommend it as a media center for the…
You should try Openelec[1] instead. It's much more lightweight and less bugs imho.
Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
#104Please skip ARMv7 and jump straight to ARMv8 for Raspberry Pi 2. No need to force OS/app developers to support 3 different ISA's for years to come. Ideally it would also be dual core and have a clock speed of at least 1.2 Ghz, since that's what most operating systems need these days to run reasonably well, but I guess that depends on your target price. 1 GB of (LP)DDR3(L) RAM should also be the minimum for the next o…
That would make the http://www.broadcom.com/products/Applications-and-Multimedia... the obvious choice.
Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been using a Pi running XBMC for about a year. It's connected to a big hard drive. I can copy stuff there from my laptop (movies, music, etc.) It works pretty well; I don't remember having to "service" it in any way since I plugged it in. It works fine to stream stuff from YouTube, too. Shows for kids, etc. The XBMC remote on my phone is pretty handy too. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it.
Does it handle HD content?
Yes, using omxplayer and XBMC.
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#106I wonder if this would run a Quake (3) server? Myself and a few of my friends still like to play the old classic... $35 seems ideal for something I could just leave on all the time for a quick game.
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> A platform with less legacy crap than x86 is wonderful for learning about OS development. I don't know how the Pi fares for this, with Broadcom's chip and all, but if I had the free time to hack an OS in my spare time, not dealing with all the thirty year-old cruft nor shedding a gazillion EUR on a PowerPC system would be ideal. Actually I'd say the x86/PC is probably one of the best-documented and most stable plat…
This is something I'm very interested in, and nearly bought a Pi today; I want a board that I can learn ARM assembly and C on to build a toy OS. I built half of a tiny kernel on X86 (woo real-mode!) nearly a decade ago, so I know a tiny bit about it all, but I'd assumed the Pi was a great target: well priced, tonnes of them out there so hopefully well documented, etc. What would you suggest instead? I'm considering j…
I think the current version of qemu can more closely emulate a Pi, rather than just a generic ARM processor.
There was also a small Pi emulator posted as part of the StarFox project on HN a while back.
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#108I still can't see why would anyone buy one except as one of those toys that you buy and then gets tossed in the closet. 10 years ago I could see the appeal, but now? The robotics, home automation, and weekend project use cases seem like would be better served by a $5 microcontroller. Some projects, such as the weather station, justify the use of a full-fledged OS, but with the cost of buying an existing, proven, weat…
Here are a couple of use cases:
- Stick it on the back of your 3D printer and run OctoPrint on it to give a nice web interface for your 3D printer (and a web cam for time lapse capture).
- Connect it to my digital piano to record playing sessions and upload the MIDI files automatically to dropbox without me having to push any buttons except the "on" button on the piano.
There are a thousand other use cases where you want something more than a microcontroller, you just have to use your imagination!
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#109For people saying they want a faster revision - do remember there are other computers in this form factor. I recently got an Odroid U3 and am very happy with it. Of course, it's $65, not $35. I tried setting up owncloud, nginx, a web server, etc. on a Pi and it couldn't handle it (everything ran, but terribly), the Odroid does well. I still like the Pi, though. There are some people for whom saving $30 really does ma…
My biggest gripe with the Pi is a lack of proper USB power, so if you add all the stuff you need, especially for a wireless setup it's not so cheap and compact anymore. I'm happy that they've (hopefully) fixed the USB power problem, that makes it much nicer as a platform.
Re: Introducing Raspberry Pi B+
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Pi makes a fantastic media center when combined with XBMC.
"Fantastic" may be overstating it. I've been running Raspbmc for about 15 months now, and although the video rendering is very good, the XMBC UI is a bit laggy and unresponsive (although there seems to have been an improvement recently). I've also used it as an SFTP client and to run a few light cron jobs (rock solid there). Given the price, I am pleased with it, but I wouldn't recommend it as a media center for the…
Agreed. I wish that RPi has some kind of cheap prebuild of a mediaplayer. If would be GREAT for non-techies if it just had a real power on/off switch, IR sensor & a basic remote that just works (probably asking for too much there).
I reckon you could fix the lag of the GUI if someone implemented Raspbmc/OpenELEC with Wayland instead of X-server. Not much has to change for this to be possible. Only the power switch & IR sensor would have to be apart of it. Remote could potentially be third party and WBMC would a man hours issue.