[tde-users] Re: Another stupid question. Two, actually.

On 9/27/24 11:07 PM, dep via tde-users wrote: Raspberry Pi board do tend to spoil you. I've not played with the latest, but have probably a 1/2 dozen Pico/Pico W boards (RP2040) that are pretty amazing. I've got 3b and 3b+ and a couple of Zero 2 W (which are equally amazing). Using the PiOS installer makes preparing the SD cards (and configuring the wireless so it works out of the box). Zero 2 W's are still on bullseye (one 64-bit one 32-bit install -- if you get a Zer0 2 W -- stick with 32-bit, it's about 2X as fast -- but you lose Arm8 assembly to play with) The Pi 4 and 5 are on my get to list. I've also used a number of TI boards and the Milkv-Duo which runs busybox as the OS (RISC based). It is the same format/size as the Pico but with 64M DDR2 RAM (verses 2M for the Pico). The Zero 2 W comes with 512M and runs full Debian fine (don't load firefox or chromium -- they run, but s l o w l y.... The LXDE (or LXQt - whatever it is) desktop also works fine -- but I run mine headless. I look forward to your book -- we've all held the wrong drive in the hand once or twice. I was fortunate not to have to worry about hot-swapping in the early days, nothing I had had it. I've got two SuperMicro boxes (a 4U and 2U) that do have hot-swap back-planes for SAS/SATA drives -- that will spoil you. Simply grab the caddy and yank -- while the box is running. That indeed is a neat trick :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.