Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote: I really admire the work you've done on Raspbian. why do you support domination and control, patents and the sale of proprietary software all in the name of and under the guise of education [1]? if you want to admire someone please

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2013-03-08 at 19:11 +, peter green wrote: Required: Reasonablly priced. I am hoping I will be able to get our build hardware sponsored but I still don't want to take the piss by specing hardware with poor bang per buck. Reasonable cost of entry, I'm not going to spec out a

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Sa, 2013-03-09 at 12:03 +, David Pottage wrote: Apparently the USB3 socket is not actually useful. anandtech.com Benchmarked it when they reviewed the Chromebook, and only got 12.7MB/s (while running ChromeOS), which is barely more than the maximum speed for USB2. i know that

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread Tim Small
On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote: get a few chromebooks ... buy up a few with broken screens from ebay etc. ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Samsung-Chromebook-with-BROKEN-SCREEN-/271166903320 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread David Pottage
On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. I had been looking egarly at the openbrix zero but it looks like that

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread peter green
David Pottage wrote: Have you come accross the cubieboard http://cubieboard.org/. It only has 1Gb of RAM, and a single core Cortex A8 CPU@1GHz, but it is a quarter of the price of the nitrogen6x so it might be more cost effective to more of them, and buy only one or two larger boards to build

Re: arm build hardware

2013-03-09 Thread peter green
David Pottage wrote: On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote: get a few chromebooks, 2G of ram, fast CPU and debian/ubuntu supported ... admittedly no SATA but USB 3.0 which should be speedy enough ... for networking get an USB 2.0 NIC (if you need wired) and enjoy that they come with a builtin