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by antt 2793 days ago
That people are pushing the RPi as a good alternative to a desktop is scary. The thing is a closed source mess with a single arm core hanging off a gpu.

A beagle bone black with the XINU book is an amazing introduction to computers because you start from nothing and have a working system by the end of it.
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ZanyProgrammer 2793 days ago
The RPI runs what is essentially bog standard Ubuntu with root access. What more could you possibly want? I swear the whining in this thread...
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antt 2793 days ago
Raspbian isn't 'bog standard ubunutu'. The beagle bone black on the other hand does run bog standard everything. The right tool for the right job, the rpi is amazingly cheap and disposable for hardware projects. It is not a good machine to teach computers on because it's architecture is pretty odd.
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tokai 2793 days ago
Well raspbian is Debian, so you're right in that it is not Ubuntu. What would you say is the substantial difference between Ubuntu for arm and x86?
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