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2017 Hacker Board Survey: Raspberry Pi Still Rules, but x86 SBCs Make Gains

posted by FatPhil on Thursday June 22 2017, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the Pi-in-the-sky dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The results are in: The Raspberry Pi 3 is the most desired maker SBC by a 4-to-1 margin. In other trends: x86 SBCs and Linux/Arduino hybrids get a boost.

More than ever, it's a Raspberry Pi world, and other Linux hacker boards are just living in it. Our 2017 hacker board survey gives the Raspberry Pi 3 a total of 2,583 votes — four times the number of the second-ranked board, the Raspberry Pi Zero W.

[...] Note that by "votes" we are referring to Borda rankings that combine 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice rankings [...]

So, which if any credit-card-sized computers are you lot playing around with?

Source: http://linuxgizmos.com/2017-hacker-board-survey-raspberry-pi-still-rules-but-x86-sbcs-make-gains/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 22 2017, @08:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 22 2017, @08:19PM (#529647)

    That blog entry is a year old, and for some reason they were trying to use Rasbian, and probably with a cheap SD card.

    I've been running Fedora 24 (custom: standard ARM image but with full hardware support added) with a Sandisk Extreme Pro SD card.

    It controls two (so far) of my lab instruments: frequency counter (Aim TTi TF960 - hacked to change VendorID & DeviceId to use generic FTDI driver), time standard (Trimble Tunderbolt-E GPS disciplined oscillator) monitored with Lady Heather utility.

    I spun my own Fedora 25, as it too lacks hardware support for the RPi. I use it on two other RPi that I own.

    I also wrote two shell scripts to update and install RPi hardware support from the official repositories (WiFi and Bluetooth support comes from a 3rd-party repo that only a determined RPI hacker would discover).