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[...] While it has been possible to get Alpine on the Pi for some time – Raspberry Pi 2 owners have been able to get it working since version 3.2.0 – this is the first version to add support for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and also offer an arm64 (aarch64) image to ease deployment.
The Pi 3 Model B+ packs a surprising amount of power into a small package, rocking a 64 bit 1.4GHz processor and gigabit ethernet (over USB 2.0). The 1GB RAM (unchanged from the previous Model B) should give the slimline Alpine incarnation of Linux more than enough headroom, depending what else you decide to run.
[...] Alpine's frugal nature makes it appealing as an alternative to some of the more resource intensive distributions available for the Pi, with optimisations such as OpenRC replacing systemd as the init system. A minimal disk installation will only consume around 130MB and the maintainers claim a container only needs 8MB.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:49PM (3 children)
Should I sub this?
https://www.androidauthority.com/renegade-elite-4k-881940/ [androidauthority.com]
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Libre-Computer-s-single-board-computer-Renegade-Elite-coming-in-August-Rockchip-RK3399-in-tow.310656.0.html [notebookcheck.net]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Tuesday July 03 2018, @02:42PM
At $100 it feels a bit too pricey for me, though it looks like a decent board overall. The plain Renegade board looks very similar to the Rock64, at pretty much the same price point. I haven't tried either of them, but I was reasonably happy with Rockchip's available documentation when I had to look into the boot process details.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:03AM (1 child)
Why? If you are doing embedded things a Pi is probably good enough. But if you want more, like to actually run a browser and need more than 1GB of ram, etc. you run smack into the problem that everything that isn't a Pi is basically headless. They keep churning out all manner of little single board Arm systems with dumb framebuffer video and perhaps a buggy blob tied to one non-mainline kernel that provides accelerated video decode. Until the video driver logjam is cleared away none of these things are useful. The Pi is too underpowered and lacking in essentials and everything else is headless. What is needed is to smack the Pi people upside the head and get them to build one with 2 or 4GB ram, and PCIe with a real Ethernet port on that.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:11AM
2 or 4GB ram, and PCIe with a real Ethernet port on that.
That's a desktop machine. Not embedded gadget. Get one of those mini-PCs or used laptop. Better suited for the task.
(though.. Pi really could get-a-real-Ethernet-port-thanks(tm) )