On May 2, 2013 13:27 "Thorsten Mühlfelder" <thenk...@salixos.org> wrote:
> > rich@rpi-17:~$ uname -a > > Linux rpi-17 3.6.11+ #408 PREEMPT Wed Apr 10 20:33:39 BST 2013 > > armv6l > > ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BCM2708 GNU/Linux > > > > also see > > <http://imageshack.us/a/img849/863/screenshot0316201309191.png> > > Looks nice, but it is damn slow when used as desktop, isn't it? > > That's a moot point. The Raspberry pi was never intended to be a > desktop machine it is a toy computer for children to learn programming > and electronic interfacing on. It also depends on what you mean by > desktop, if you mean desktop environment, the there are many to chose > from. I would not recommend running KDE on a Raspberry pi but xfce is > pretty nippy once it has loaded (on start up things like gpg-agent run > in the background soaking up 100 cpu., This can be turned off if you > wish). Speed is also affected by the raspberry pi's use of SD card > storage, you may find you have periods of high iowait caused by kswapd > and mmcd, This can be addressed by turning off journaling and access > time writes to SDcard etc. > All in all the Raspberry pi is a neat bit of 'off the shelf' kit that > has great potential for use in not only in education but also home > automation and building cool gadgets like media centers, wifi internet > radios etc, etc. >
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