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> Or, if you want a fast dev board, the Odroids are $35 to $60. The Odroids are fast, yes, but they are stuck with old kernels in Linux, buggy drivers (especia
by morganvachon 9y ago
> Or, if you want a fast dev board, the Odroids are $35 to $60.
The Odroids are fast, yes, but they are stuck with old kernels in Linux, buggy drivers (especially video), and a very limited OS compatibility list overall. If you're developing with the Odroid as your target, fine, but for general purpose computing you're better off with the Pi if you want ARM, or else a cheap x86 box like the article mentions.
- tyingq 9y agoThe Asus Chromebox is a cheap x86 box. It is basically a cheap NUC. As for odroid, I mentioned it because one of the points in referenced article was lackluster speed on the Rpi. If the Rpi is fast enough for what you're doing, none of this is needed.
- morganvachon 9y agoYep, speed is the biggest issue on the RPi, both the CPU itself (even the Pi 3) and the network/USB bandwidth. The Odroid is faster, but what's the point of having the fastest board in town if you can only run one or two broken distros on it?
- tyingq 9y agoDepends on what you're doing with it I suppose. Everything I've needed dev boards for has been headless, so I never had to deal with GPU driver issues. I recall rpi having issues in that area before as well though. Odroid says it works with Ubuntu 16.04. that's the current LTS, isn't it?
- ktta 9y agoThat's changing, because 4.9 kernel is being worked on. Although it is currently buggy, that won't be the case for long.