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Banana Pi BPI-M4, Raspberry Pi Clone Packs a More Powerful SoC and Costs US$35
- oblib 7y agoI'm always glad to see these kinds of RPi competitors, but I've yet to buy one. Says it runs "Android and Linux etc.OS" but those I've looked into after they've been in the hands of users always seem to have some issues that make me hesitate. The latest Raspbian OS is really sweet and the list of add-ons and software keeps getting bigger and better too. Everything else in the category is still quite a ways behind them, but I still admire the work being done on them.
- ksaj 7y agoI like Raspbian enough that I run it on my production laptop just to stay consistent with how I compute at home and in devel. It's ancient, but Raspbian breathed new life into it. (ironically, same speed and number of cores, but 4 times the memory so it smokes the RPis when I need a little more juice.) My main devel RPi is running clfswm (so you can probably discern my language of choice), but other than the way it looks and handles, even it is pure Raspbian underneath. They're a little slow to the bleeding edge, but that's why I'm not afraid of the update cycle. My desktop (which sits alone in my office because of how bloody loud it is...) is a decked out Mac pro, but even there I have Raspbian running on VirtualBox. It's quite a good distro. They put a lot of work into it that shows in just about every aspect. Stable and consistent is all I ever ask for once the durn thing is working for me.