Banana pi $29.99 computer
It isn't good news, though. $35 is a really, really low price point already. Driving it down with hardware piracy (it's too strong a term though - maybe "manufacturing emulation"), only destroys the ability of the inventor to provide user support.
Now, if for some reason you need like 300 rpi clones to .. do ... something in parallel very slowly ... then maybe it is good news . But otherwise, I wish the cloners would clone like a Lenovo ultrabook or something else I can't afford, rather than a cheap open-source computer I'd prefer to support.
Note I don't own a rpi. I do have an Arduino. They are very different
Now, if for some reason you need like 300 rpi clones to .. do ... something in parallel very slowly ... then maybe it is good news . But otherwise, I wish the cloners would clone like a Lenovo ultrabook or something else I can't afford, rather than a cheap open-source computer I'd prefer to support.
Note I don't own a rpi. I do have an Arduino. They are very different
It looks like mele's competitor 'PIPO' has been able to get a Windows model
into the market faster. $100 including Ram and storage. It's listed for sale
unlike mele's barebone model PCG03
http://www.geekbuying.com/item/PIPO-X7- ... 39668.html
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into the market faster. $100 including Ram and storage. It's listed for sale
unlike mele's barebone model PCG03
http://www.geekbuying.com/item/PIPO-X7- ... 39668.html
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Apparently the people of lemaker have been promised a mali grapics driver
by Allwinner that will work with linux.
http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-11532-2-1-2.html
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Here is the banana pi layout scheme
http://forum.lemaker.org/forum.php?mod= ... Q1Nw%3D%3D
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by Allwinner that will work with linux.
http://forum.lemaker.org/thread-11532-2-1-2.html
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Here is the banana pi layout scheme
http://forum.lemaker.org/forum.php?mod= ... Q1Nw%3D%3D
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Price has fallen to $39 US + heatsink included and free shipping
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shi ... 9.html?s=p
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http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shi ... 9.html?s=p
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There is a site now advertising the banana pi board for $29.95
(no power supply or cables)
http://ameridroid.com/products/banana-pi
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(no power supply or cables)
http://ameridroid.com/products/banana-pi
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Not yet but in the workssnayak wrote:Is there any such low priced board with x86 core? which will run normal puppy linux...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/80 ... i2-form-fa
But you'd be better off with
http://www.tinydeal.com/Wintel-Windows- ... fgodtksDWg
for a few pesos more.
I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.
i.e. power on, runs through netboot sequence and picks up a boot image being served from your desktop puppy that's running PXE server ... and boots up puppy, and then switches over to being a PXE, HTML and Voice communications server itself. With TV display output, mic input it could be left as a always on lower power device attached to the TV for voice, file, text communications - a bit like a internet phone.
i.e. power on, runs through netboot sequence and picks up a boot image being served from your desktop puppy that's running PXE server ... and boots up puppy, and then switches over to being a PXE, HTML and Voice communications server itself. With TV display output, mic input it could be left as a always on lower power device attached to the TV for voice, file, text communications - a bit like a internet phone.
Close enough?greengeek wrote:Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...rufwoof wrote:I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.
musher0
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"You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen)
I think the VoCore supports Netbooting (PXE booting of LAN PCs) by loading its TFTP libs and telling, thru its menus, to "serve" this along with its normal DHCP services. DNSMASQ is used for this in the shipped OS.
Thus, it has great LAN services for supporting what anyone would want at home as well as its WAN ability that comes with it.
One of the limiting factor, with solution like this, is RAM.
And, that price! So expensive.
Thus, it has great LAN services for supporting what anyone would want at home as well as its WAN ability that comes with it.
One of the limiting factor, with solution like this, is RAM.
And, that price! So expensive.
The VoCore is a very specialized piece of equipment. It runs OpenWrt, which is a open source software that acts as a router firmware. It isn't a standard linux type of distribution.
Look at the specs:
Look at the specs:
32 MB of RAM and 8 MB of storage. Enough to be a router or some other kind of network node. Maybe to listen for a command and turn something on and off. Not enough to really do anything else.Operating system: OpenWrt
System Memory: 32 MB RAM
Storage: 8MB SPI Flash (for firmware)
It's Arm though. Like a Pi on steroids. Not Intel which Puppy thrives on.musher0 wrote:Close enough?greengeek wrote:Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...rufwoof wrote:I'd like to see a low power device with a net plug and netboot option combined with 1GB memory, with the capacity to boot a puppy.
Samsung Exynos5 Octa ARM Cortex™-A15 Quad 2Ghz and Cortex™-A7 Quad 1.3GHz CPUs
Ah.rokytnji wrote:It's Arm though. Like a Pi on steroids. Not Intel which Puppy thrives on.musher0 wrote:Close enough?greengeek wrote:Me too. And it needs a power input from a solar panel so that it boots itself when the sun comes up. Just waiting for the right hardware...Samsung Exynos5 Octa ARM Cortex™-A15 Quad 2Ghz and Cortex™-A7 Quad 1.3GHz CPUs
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I see, we have many such mini PCs based on x86. But can they run conventional linux distros? Like all arbitrary puppy linux...
Or they just run some special linux customized for those boards?
Or they just run some special linux customized for those boards?
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One supposes his questions are thus.
•How is this any different, or advantageous, over the Raspberry Pi?
•Is it made by folks in wage-slavery?
•What does it do the Raspberry Pi product does not?
•How do Allwinner's processors stack up against AMD, Intel, ad infenitum?
•Has anybody built a rig to attempt to run Puppy Linux on this?
I do not know much about the Hummingbird, but basic business mercantilism
says one must make more money than spent to maintain a profit margin.
If they soon do not crank out a product, assuming they haven't, like Icarus' melted wings, it shall die.
A popular Langston Hughes poem says,
•How is this any different, or advantageous, over the Raspberry Pi?
•Is it made by folks in wage-slavery?
•What does it do the Raspberry Pi product does not?
•How do Allwinner's processors stack up against AMD, Intel, ad infenitum?
•Has anybody built a rig to attempt to run Puppy Linux on this?
I do not know much about the Hummingbird, but basic business mercantilism
says one must make more money than spent to maintain a profit margin.
If they soon do not crank out a product, assuming they haven't, like Icarus' melted wings, it shall die.
A popular Langston Hughes poem says,
/ //Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die;/ /life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly./ //