<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:47 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier <<a href="mailto:hugh@mimosa.com">hugh@mimosa.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">| From: Aruna Hewapathirane via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>><br>
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| Hi Mat, many thanks and the more ram it has on board the better. This is<br>
| strictly<br>
| for my own experimenting and learn by doing stuff. So any Pi will do to<br>
| start off with I guess.<br>
| <br>
| I am hoping to go down the embedded linux rabbit hole. I have been messing<br>
| around<br>
| with arduino for a while now and I guess it is now time to move on to<br>
| something a little<br>
| easier to compile and test a linux kernel on :-)<br>
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Any Raspberry Pi would do for what you just said until you get to the last <br>
line.<br>
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If you don't care about kernel build time, I *guess* that any Pi would do, <br>
but I don't know.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do very much care about the build time. I was thinking of cross compiling on my <br></div><div>ancient desktop then moving it to the Pi ? <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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| I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient desktop.<br>
| I simply can't<br>
| afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup<br>
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You don't need two monitors so you can remove that cost. You can probably <br>
use your old monitor, keyboard, and mouse (you might need dongles to <br>
convert between old and new standards).<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Agreed all I need is a single monitor.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
What are the specs of your ancient desktop?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well.. like I said pretty old my bios is:<br></div><div></div><div>cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date <br>07/05/2013<br></div><div><br></div><div>and lscpu shows:<br></div><div>Architecture: x86_64<br>CPU(s): 4<br>Thread(s) per core: 2<br>Core(s) per socket: 2<br>Vendor ID: GenuineIntel<br>Model: 60<br>Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz<br>CPU MHz: 3389.375<br>CPU max MHz: 3400.0000<br>CPU min MHz: 800.0000<br>BogoMIPS: 6784.89 </div><div><br></div><div>and free -h shows:</div><div> total used free shared buffers cached<br>Mem: 7.5G 5.2G 2.3G 341M 163M 2.1G<br>-/+ buffers/cache: 2.9G 4.6G<br>Swap: 902M 0B 902M</div><div><br></div><div>it's not a bad system I just want to start messing with a Pi :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Most ancient desktops are actually more powerful than a Pi. For some <br>
meanings of "ancient". If yours is really ancient, I would guess that <br>
there is a cast-off PC that is less ancient.<br>
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If you put a premium on "cute" and don't mind the various inconveniences, <br>
a Pi can surely be used as your main general-purpose desktop.<br>
---<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for all the pointers and advice.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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