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Small Linux PCs.

4 comments, 353 views, posted 9:29 pm 15/07/2012 in Linux & Open Source by griffin
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griffin got his Raspberry Pi the other day, and has been rubbing his genitals with it ever since. [Yeah, you know you like that, you little tramp.]
I put Debian on it (not bad) and XBMC (poor performance) and Arch linux (looks the best so far). It's early days yet, but I've been having fun with it.

Then I came across this, a roundup of small linux pcs. Some of these look pretty cool. This is a bonanza time for linux pcs.

Small low cost linux pc’s, an overview from 07-2012

You might have heard of the Raspberry Pi, or the Cotton Candy, or the Snowball. Those are, besides nice pi, candy and snow, also small Linux pc’s. Most of them have an ARM chip, a small amount of memory and run some for of Linux.

This page will provide an overview of what is on the market, specs, an image, and links to the boards. It is probably not complete, and if I forgot one, please leave a comment. I think I’ll be doing another overview at the end of the year.
Prices are in US dollar unless otherwise stated. It is the starting price for the cheapest model where applicable.
USB is always 2.0 unless otherwise stated.
If specs are known, I add them, (HMDI 1.4, 10/100/1000 base T ethernet), if not then it is like (HDMI, RJ-45 ethernet).

Table of Contents

Raspberry Pi
Cotton Candy
Gooseberry
ODROID-X
CuBox
Pandora
Via APC
AllWinner MK802
Ben Nanote
Norhtec Gecko Surfboard
Zipit Z2
Trimslice
Plug Computers
Others

Read it here.

Extra Points Given by:

bradpitt (10), z0phi3l (5), Paracelsus (5), Edorph (10), Wombat_Harness (10)

Comments

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8:43 am 16/07/2012

Edorph

Nice. The Odroid sounds quite snazzy. Not as neat as the Pi but considerably faster.
It'll be interesting to see what becomes of the Ouya too.. assuming it's not a hoax. Up to almost $5 million on Kickstarter now O_o.

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2:19 pm 26/09/2012

mynameis

I'm waiting for my Pi to come... been waiting for a while now.

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3:35 pm 26/09/2012

griffin

Quote by mynameis:
I'm waiting for my Pi to come... been waiting for a while now.


I'm rubbing myself with my Pi right now. In the genital area.

Actually, I've got Raspbmc on it, this latest release seems to be quite stable. I'll watch a movie or two later, I haven't actually tested a movie on 1080 all the way through yet. I'll give that a shot tonight. I've got some cheapass generic pc remote from dealextreme connected, it works fine, no problem.

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3:51 pm 26/09/2012

mynameis

That's exactly my plan for when it comes. Raspbmc. I actually just installed xbmc on the desktop too to check it out. It's pretty good.

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