[conspire] Wondering about the "parallela" Ubuntu board

[Paul Zander]

Ken,

I am one of several people using Raspberry Pi.  This is also an ARM based board.  Retail price $35.  While there are a number of Linux distros for RPi, the one I use is Raspberian which is basically Debian with LXDE.

See http://www.raspberrypi.org/   and http://www.raspbian.org/


Paul


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From: Ken Bernard <kenbernard at gmail.com>
To: conspire at linuxmafia.com 
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 7:40 PM
Subject: [conspire] Wondering about the "parallela" Ubuntu board



Hi All-
I haven't been to the CABAL install days at Rick's for some time, about a year and a half I guess (longer??). I have been without a Linux box for about 6 months, and am looking for something to put a Linux distro on. I would probably want to use Inkscape (SVG drawing prog.) and some music creation software (edit WAV files and create songs saved as FLAC.)

I ran into an article about a low cost ARM based board running Ubuntu. A Parallela board, offered by Adapteva, and I wonder what you as a group think about it. I need to know if it I could get it to work. (Rick "get it to work" means that it would be easy and simple get it running and configured. That I could use it for tasks mentioned above. Also that it would be easy to maintain, for someone with slight Linux technical knowledge beyond comfort with the Gnome and KDE desktops.) 

Please see:
http://www.adapteva.com/
http://www.parallella.org/board/
http://www.parallella.org/docs/parallella_manual.pdf

Thanks much,
Ken Bernard
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