On 05/15/2014 04:46 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Hi,
Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)bobich.net> writes:
> IIRC DreamPlug also has optical audio port.
True, but it's a v5, isn't it? That's not supported at all.
> One thing to consider is CPU generation. Don't know about Wandaboard,
> but Pi is ARMv6 and Trimslice is ARMv7.
>
> AFAIK support for everything before ARMv7 has been dropped from Fedora.
Yes, but there is PiDora, which is a respin for v6. However you're
right that something like the Wandboard is more powerful. Looks like I
can get a Wandboard Solo + Case + Power for about $100, not quite double
the cost of the RPi for about 2x the performance.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/261454339350?lpid=82
$80 and you can get a 5v 2amp power for less than $20 and you have 1Gb
memory.
I compared specs of the Wandboard to Cubieboard some time ago and have
been more focused on the Cubie. Like I said, I will order one next week
when I am home. But will find a local 3D printer to make a case that
can also hold a drive.
One thing that has come up on the cubieboard list is NAND and SD failure
for the OS. Conversation there is if you want a production box, move
your OS to a real drive.
OSs like Fedora are doing too much I/O on a regular basis to rely on
anything less. I have some experience with this on an old Asus ee700
with only 8Gb SSD and having to put much of the system on an SD. /var
and swap on the SSD and STILL I would loose the SD card part.