----- Original Message ----- > The Pi has 256M of RAM and works surprisingly well as a graphical > desktop. I find it about par with my Lemote Yeeloong 8089 (which has a > gig of RAM). > The ARM (and MIPSEL) distress are both second class citizen in the > Debian world, so you might not find packages for everything you want. > The SDHC card, used for persistent storage, should support swap if > needed. No idea how well the GPIO memory board idea might work..
While you could put swap on flash, write operations on flash are usually slower than spinning media, and you run into the idea of flash has a limited(albeit getting higher) number of times it can be written to. -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
