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1. I completely agree. 2. I think you're right but I don't know what the better answer is -- I don't like the idea of raspbian being the only answer. Maybe th

by stonogo 10y ago

1. I completely agree. 2. I think you're right but I don't know what the better answer is -- I don't like the idea of raspbian being the only answer. Maybe they'll motivate Debian to improve in this regard? 3. This is a strange comparison. The PocketCHIP is a bit of a unique offering -- I'm not aware of a self-contained anything based on the pi zero that I can order off the shelf and use out of the box. I'd be delighted to see a counterexample! 4. There are linux-based tools to flash the firmware. I've never actually used the Chrome approach. Here: http://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#flash-chip-firmware http://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#flash-chip-firmware 5. Please report these problems! If not to debbugs, at least make a blog post or a gist or something. Get the information out there! I agree with most of your conclusions, with the caveat that the Pocket CHIP is a unique device, in a world of years-long any-day-now products. It is very refreshing to see someone accomplish what they set out to do, warts and all.

voltagex_ 10y ago
I'll add on to this - I'm happy to help people report Debian bugs.
iuguy 10y ago
For point 3, there are options like Adafruit's PiGrrl series, some of which I believe need 3d printing (but you can order that done for you from elsewhere). The downside of the PiGrrl is the lack of keyboard. The upside are the controls are better. On point 4, yes there are, but this is rather convoluted too. Web browsers are supposed to be used to browse web pages. If they wanted to use javascript to create a cross-platform app, they should've used something like electron. Point 5 I'll get round to when I have time, but I'm very time poor. I've already started seeing if I can improve mednafen support for Atari Lynx and get the GLES in 4.4 working better with mednafen. I'm totally with you on the idea of raspbian being the only answer - I really don't like that. Unfortunately many of the problems come from the fact that the Allwinner chip used is so poorly supported and that people don't write code for multiple architectures, so packages build but then you get segfaults over stupid things like endianness when you run binaries.

by stonogo 10y ago

voltagex_ 10y ago

I'll add on to this - I'm happy to help people report Debian bugs.

iuguy 10y ago

For point 3, there are options like Adafruit's PiGrrl series, some of which I believe need 3d printing (but you can order that done for you from elsewhere). The downside of the PiGrrl is the lack of keyboard. The upside are the controls are better. On point 4, yes there are, but this is rather convoluted too. Web browsers are supposed to be used to browse web pages. If they wanted to use javascript to create a cross-platform app, they should've used something like electron. Point 5 I'll get round to when I have time, but I'm very time poor. I've already started seeing if I can improve mednafen support for Atari Lynx and get the GLES in 4.4 working better with mednafen. I'm totally with you on the idea of raspbian being the only answer - I really don't like that. Unfortunately many of the problems come from the fact that the Allwinner chip used is so poorly supported and that people don't write code for multiple architectures, so packages build but then you get segfaults over stupid things like endianness when you run binaries.