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Pi-Lovers? There Are Two New OSes for You to Bite

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-think-of-the-NUC dept.

"exec" writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[...] 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 EETech1 on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:13AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:13AM (#702796)

    I've had zero issues with sd card corruption using these:

    https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/RP-SMKC08DA1/PCR237-ND/4168602?WT.z_cid=sp_8001_buynow [digikey.com]
    They're not cheap ~$45 for 8 GB, but they have additional error correction, and power failure recovery.

    If you want SLC flash and class 10 speed, they also have these:
    https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/RP-SMSC08DA1/P17014-ND/5119421?WT.z_cid=sp_8001_buynow [digikey.com]
    They're only ~$145 for the 8 GB!

    It sucks that you have to buy a $45 memory card to make a $35 computer work reliably, but it saves the hassle of the read only filesystem.

    I have about a dozen Pi's in industrial applications, and they just pull the plug no matter what you tell them, so these are a lifesaver. I can push updates to them, and change calibrations without having to fuss with rebooting to make changes. I also like to be able to log everything so if there is a problem, I have some data to go on.

    Cheers!

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