On Thu 29 Oct 2015 14:45:27 NZDT +1300, Pete Mundy wrote: > You might be surprised! This Mac geek knows about his underlying BSD,
The underlying foundation doesn't give you macos! And that's what the mac geeks are keen on ;-) > But I think nowadays I'd be more inclined to leverage a nice quiet, > cheap, small and low-power Raspberry Pi 2 than an old Dell. For the price of power saved by sending the Dell to landfill you could buy an RPi. It is not necessarily more ecological to keep clunky old space heaters going. My problem with RPi is the lack of a SATA connection. Can't properly and reliably connect bigger hard disks. Main storage on USB2.0 bridges? Really? And the throughput sucks of course when everything (Ethernet, disk IO, you name it) goes over the same USB bus. > Not quite the 50c computer, but pretty close! :) Yeah right. By the time you're kitted out with a running RPi in NZ you've spent into the 3 digits. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
