Re: [wsjt-devel] New Rasberry Pi 2

2015-02-08 Thread Alan VK2ZIW
Hi all, The Banana Pi, dual core and 1Gb ram with SATA disk is still a winner. My 1Tb disk,  NO "wear out" problems and SPACE, SPACE SPACE. I even have 10Gb for "swap", real swap space. And of course, loaded with Fedora 21, runs WSJT-X etc.. well. The only downer is the ARM Consort

Re: [wsjt-devel] New Rasberry Pi 2

2015-02-08 Thread Bob McCormick W1QA
Bill G4WJS wrote: > The latest Rasberry Pi 2 launched today with a quad core > ARM Cortex A7 800MHz CPU (that's 3 more cores and > 100MHz more speed) and 1Gbyte main memory which > is double the what the B+ offered. > > This may be a serious contender for running the GUI version > of WSJT-X w

[wsjt-devel] New Rasberry Pi 2

2015-02-02 Thread Bill Somerville
Hi all, particularly pertinent alongside current efforts to make WSJT-X more multi-core aware: The latest Rasberry Pi 2 launched today with a quad core ARM Cortex A7 800MHz CPU (that's 3 more cores and 100MHz more speed) and 1Gbyte main memory which is double the what the B+ offered. This may