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The Raspberry Pi is pretty terrible for "cheap desktop computer". It's better for a lot of graphics and video-related things than the Beaglebones. And the newer

The Raspberry Pi is pretty terrible for "cheap desktop computer". It's better for a lot of graphics and video-related things than the Beaglebones. And the newer Pi's have more RAM and faster CPUs than most of the Beagles. The PRUs and huge GPIO count are the good things about a Beaglebone, IMO. It seems like there's less documentation and pre-built libraries out there for them than for the RPi computers, which is a shame. RPi wins out on price and community.

mch82 9y ago
The community docs for Rasperry Pi do win out for the moment, and so do product and accessory availability. Long-term, it seems like the goal of the BeagleBone foundation is to support each board for a number of years in order to allow for text books, curriculum, and other support material to emerge. Their focus seems to be on robotics and headless embedded systems rather than trying to duplicate the "cheap desktop learning computer" objective of the R Pi. It will be interesting to see if they're able to achieve that goal. I do think the BBB model for open source is the most comprehensive model so far. I'd be very interested to hearing of other open source hardware models. The Open Compute Project hardware licenses were promising, but I haven't seen much action on them since the request for comment in 2014... http://www.opencompute.org/blog/request-for-comment-ocp-hardware-license-agreement/ http://www.opencompute.org/blog/request-for-comment-ocp-hard...