Posted: 10/16/2014 8:22:44 PM EDT
| Just getting started. Very interested and happy to learn about linux! |
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Booooo! Then you can't buy 'toys.' Quoted:
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Or you could just load a vm of raspbian on your main pc Booooo! Then you can't buy 'toys.' I had to buy one for a class I am taking. In total I spent $85. 60 for the pie. It came in a kit with hdmi, wifi dongle, power supply, case(cheap case btw), and ad card with the os. And $25 for keyboard and mouse. |
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I got one. Hooked it up, loaded the OS, shut it down....and that was it. About 10 months ago.
I want to get an Audrino, seems more hardware-learning based. But, I know I would get one, and fiddle with it for a day or two, and then it would sit on the shelf by the Pi and collect dust! But....good on ya, OP! They are a neat little way to learn *nix and programming. Bit light on the horsepower to do much, but could be a little media server or something hooked up to a large HDD. |
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Booooo! Then you can't buy 'toys.' Quoted:
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Or you could just load a vm of raspbian on your main pc Booooo! Then you can't buy 'toys.' Ditto, it not some much about the programing part, but what you can do with cheap toys to blow money on instead. |
| I threw mine away. It was a piece of crap. I went through dozens of memory cards as it would corrupt them and render them useless. It would work fine for a few days then crap out. I could get it to completely rebuild from a backup and be operational but it was never stable. I have intel NUCs now that are just a little bit larger and aren't crap. I don't have time to waste on unreliable hardware. |
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http://hanzerik.no-ip.org/
General Info Hostname Hanzerik-RPi-Server System Time 22 Oct 2014 12:34:28 MDT Kernel Linux 3.12.28+ Processor ARMv6 rev 7 (v6l) CPU Frequency 700MHz CPU Load 0% CPU Temperature 42.8°C Uptime 22 days, 07:29 (hh:mm) Mine has been going good since I bought it. I use this one as a small home server. The other one has worked well also, just need to find some time between work and family to get Slackware installed on it. Right now it has a default install of Raspbian installed on a 16g card, the other card I have is an 8g that will be used for Slackware. |