On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:47 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
| From: Aruna Hewapathirane via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| Hi Mat, many thanks and the more ram it has on board the better. This is | strictly | for my own experimenting and learn by doing stuff. So any Pi will do to | start off with I guess. | | I am hoping to go down the embedded linux rabbit hole. I have been messing | around | with arduino for a while now and I guess it is now time to move on to | something a little | easier to compile and test a linux kernel on :-)
Any Raspberry Pi would do for what you just said until you get to the last line.
If you don't care about kernel build time, I *guess* that any Pi would do, but I don't know.
I do very much care about the build time. I was thinking of cross compiling on my ancient desktop then moving it to the Pi ?
| I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient desktop. | I simply can't | afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup
You don't need two monitors so you can remove that cost. You can probably use your old monitor, keyboard, and mouse (you might need dongles to convert between old and new standards).
Agreed all I need is a single monitor.
What are the specs of your ancient desktop?
Well.. like I said pretty old my bios is: cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date 07/05/2013 and lscpu shows: Architecture: x86_64 CPU(s): 4 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Model: 60 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz CPU MHz: 3389.375 CPU max MHz: 3400.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 6784.89 and free -h shows: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7.5G 5.2G 2.3G 341M 163M 2.1G -/+ buffers/cache: 2.9G 4.6G Swap: 902M 0B 902M it's not a bad system I just want to start messing with a Pi :-)
Most ancient desktops are actually more powerful than a Pi. For some meanings of "ancient". If yours is really ancient, I would guess that there is a cast-off PC that is less ancient.
If you put a premium on "cute" and don't mind the various inconveniences, a Pi can surely be used as your main general-purpose desktop. ---
Thank you for all the pointers and advice.
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