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As I've mentioned in the past, I often use a Raspberry Pi Model 3 for casual web surfing and email.
Recently Raspberrypi dot org introduced a newer version of Raspbian they call Pixel; it provides the Chromium web browser and a full LibreOffice suite.
Wow, two pigs in one small basket was my original thought.
Boy was I wrong. Chromium (even running uBlock Origin) was by far the fastest and most stable of the available browsers I've used on the Pi.
Midori, and "Web" (both webkit browsers), are slow and crashy by comparison.
Not so with Chromium. Its Blink engine really is very good on this hardware.
And LibreOffice also runs very well.
In fact, this Raspian (Raspberry Debian) release is just all around useable.
If you've got an extra flat screen, keyboard and mouse in your junk closet (or a spare hdmi port on your current monitor), its well worth the 35 bucks for a Pi model B Version 3. Its an astounding value and fun as well.
I bought extra MicroSD cards for playing with the other Operating System choices available from a variety of different sources.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:53AM
Unfortunately, it is pushed up over $90canadian with shipping. Not something I can really do, currently: the Pi is actually a Christmas present to myself from my wife and kids although they don't know it yet. :)
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 13 2016, @04:09AM
All depends on what you're trying to serve... if you just need something that sets up easily and works well enough, a Pi3 is hard to beat - low cost and very high "Google tech support" score. The other more exotic flavors may have better specs and potentially perform better once they are configured for a particular task, but they do tend to cost more and the technical support is rarely as accessible is it is for a Pi.
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