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Am I on the wrong list for posing basic questions about Linux? I
posted a question a few weeks ago about about not being able to copy
files because of permissions and because filename had a '?' in it. I
received no response. I understand everyone is a volunteer. I'm not
complaining - just want to know if this is an appropriate forum for
basic questions. I know it's wrong to piggyback on this thread, but
it is getting a lot of traffic, so I had no choice. Do I keep
posting, and just see which posts are of interest to people, and
which questions are not? Sorry, I'm not one to take a hint or "know"
when to leave a party. I need someone to say, "Chris, leave the
party." :)<br>
Chris<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-03-04 10:25 p.m., Aruna
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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>
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| 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>
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<div>I do very much care about the build time. I was
thinking of cross compiling on my <br>
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<div>ancient desktop then moving it to the Pi ? <br>
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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>
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<div>Agreed all I need is a single monitor.</div>
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What are the specs of your ancient desktop?<br>
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<div>Well.. like I said pretty old my bios is:<br>
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<div>cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date <br>
07/05/2013<br>
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<div>and lscpu shows:<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>it's not a bad system I just want to start messing
with a Pi :-)<br>
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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
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<div>Thank you for all the pointers and advice.<br>
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