[conspire] Wondering about the "parallela" Ubuntu board

[Paul Zander]

The March SVLUG meeting had speakers demo Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black.  (and several alternatives).

The RPI lists for $35.  You supply SD card and load it using a different computer with SD card interface.
  Plus:  you get to choose which distro to load.
  Minus: you have to choose which distro to load.

BeagleBone Black lists for $45 and comes with programmed card.  

To Ken,
The decision is to go with one of the above, because there are lots of other people using them 
Or go with one that works with Ubuntu because lots of people use Ubuntu.



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From: Tony Godshall <togo at of.net>
To: Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org> 
Cc: Conspire Mailing list <conspire at linuxmafia.com> 
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [conspire] Wondering about the "parallela" Ubuntu board


One of the vendors who sells and supports
Raspberry Pi also offers Occidentalis.

Essentialy, those are basic Debian,
compiled for specific variant of ARM
chip in the RPi plus some drivers for
the extra I/O.

For a little more, a BeagleBone Black
gives better performance, and still
quite low power.


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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