[ale] Basic/playing-around distro

[Kyle Brieden]

I know of more than a few people who use a RPi 3 as a daily driver for 
things like web browsing and email.  The last time I set up a RPi 3 - 
for my brother-in-law to set up Pi Hole https://pi-hole.net - I noticed 
the Raspian image comes preloaded with Minecraft.

Personally, I use a Model B+ - the first generation - for DHCP and 
internal DNS on my network under Arch Linux ARM.

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 21-06-2017 07:38, Douglas Yoon wrote:
> My 2 cents: about 2 months ago, I got a Kingwin NGFF M.2 enclosure,
> shoved in a 128GB SSD stick, and formatted my 128 MB* microSD card to
> boot linux from the USB 3 SSD. I got better performance and my microSD
> card has not corrupted itself since. I use the RPi daily now to run
> Ansible, Terraform, and play with docker.
> 
> *yes, I actually had an ancient 128MB card and was so happy to have
> found a use for it!
> 
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm for RPI but can you get adequate performance from SD card even
>> hyper speed ones. Modern browsers rely heavy on cache and their own
>> database for whatever. Even on my 64 bit distro with spinning disk I
>> can see very heavy HDD action when Mozilla boots up and later when
>> some JS invader starts his job.
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Steve Litt
>> <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 10:42:12 -0400
>>> Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Picking up where SteveT left off, wouldn't a $40 RPi3 be
>>> adequate to
>>>> the task? With TDP in the range of an old school (pre LED) kid's
>>>> night light at something like what 8 watts power consumption,
>>> you
>>>> could run it fanless, reducing both noise and failure points.
>>> Just
>>>> guessing, but a minimally tasked older system, esp. if P4, would
>>>> likely draw over 10x more power.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not great with math, but if I did the numbers right
>>>> 8Wx24x365/1000 = 70.08kWH/year at average of $0.10/kWH =
>>> $7.01/year
>>>> for the Pi vs ~ $70/year for the PC (even more if P4). So it
>>> wouldn't
>>>> take too many months to recover the cost of new RPi based system
>>> vs
>>>> using an old decommissioned PC.
>>> 
>>> But wait,  there's more! Your RPi3 would be great for bragging
>>> rights.
>>> Your RPi3 would help give you the experience to help you later
>>> build RPi
>>> based MythTV. I don't know what you do for a living, but I'm
>>> betting it
>>> will raise your market value.
>>> 
>>> LOL, it might even help your love life. After several years of
>>> marriage, my wife Sylvia had seen me author books, fly all over
>>> the
>>> country giving classes, and write programs to make computers do
>>> what I
>>> wanted them to do. She understood this stuff was cool, but kinda
>>> took
>>> it for granted.
>>> 
>>> Then, one day, she saw me soldering. Her eyes grew wide, her face
>>> filled with color as she said "you can do that ?????????". Let's
>>> just
>>> say she was impressed.
>>> 
>>> Greg's right. RPi3 is cheap to buy, cheap to run, and will forever
>>> improve your life.
>>> 
>>> SteveT
>>> 
>>> Steve Litt
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