Re: [9fans] Small Plan 9 Platforms

["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>]

On Wed, 8/5/15, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the big advantage of the Rpi or Rpi2 (for speed,
> memory and cores)is that there's a wealth of published
> projects for them, including hardware ones, and other stuff,
> and they aren't likely to go away. It's true that lacking SATA
> and Gb Ether makes it harderto use them for certain applications
> (except as demos, alhough there's a Kickstarter project for
> mSATA),but if you're doing Computing in the Small both SATA
> and Gb are perhaps optional.

I am kind of leaning toward the RPi at the moment for reasons
very much along those lines.  Though I'm probably going to
order at least a Banana Pi for my own playing around.  If I
read their propaganda correctly, it should run the OS images
that the RPi does.  If so, I'm really curious to see how close
Richard's Plan9 image comes to running on it.  And I do still
need to do some playing with the BBB I recently got.  In terms
of the RPi though, as of yesterday, my auth server is now
running on an RPi, replacing a nearly 20 year old NEC laptop.

> I'm glad you asked, though, because I hadn't seen the APC Paper.

It is a really cute little machine.  I'm tempted to get one of
those to play with too.

Too many toys, too little time...

BLS