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I wonder how many people have several older models of Raspberry Pi sitting in their drawers and collecting dust, as selling them seems to be too much of the has

by butz 3y ago

I wonder how many people have several older models of Raspberry Pi sitting in their drawers and collecting dust, as selling them seems to be too much of the hassle?

LeafItAlone 3y ago
I have a few of the model B version that was released in 2012, somewhere in my basement. I’m not even sure how usable these would be today.
- ThatPlayer 3y ago
  The original one with 256MB of RAM? The later models upped that to 512MB. I ended up breaking the full-sized SD card slot on mine.
- johnklos 3y ago
  I'm using several original BCM2835 Raspberry Pis and Pi Zeros (original) to compile pkgsrc packages for NetBSD on earmv4 and earmv5 because the newer ARM CPUs won't run anything below earmv6. There are some instructions the newer CPUs don't support that'd need to be emulated. With a USB attached SSD, they're quite reliable and run for many months at a time, compiling non-stop with no issues.
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    Yeah anything older than the Pi 3 with armv7 is also more or less unusable in terms of OS deps, since there just aren't many package releases being maintained for v6 and below.
    - johnklos 3y ago
      I'm using them precisely to make packages available for them, so I don't think it's fair at all to say they're unusable. The OS is fully, 100% supported, so we're not even talking about that. See: http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ The number of packages available is decent and is only improving: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/
      - moffkalast 3y ago
        Ah I'm not talking about NetBSD there specifically, mainly Ubuntu and Debian since that's what I typically use. But in general the OS support isn't very good.
        johnklos 3y ago
        You're replying to a post about NetBSD ;) Your statement, "But in general the OS support isn't very good," would be better framed as "But in general the Linux OS support isn't very good," because OS support for pre-earmv7hf and pre-aarch64 is excellent in NetBSD.
        moffkalast 3y ago
        Yep, I think we understand each other now.
- blitzar 3y ago
  The Pi 4 is really only a moderate step up in performance from that model.

by butz 3y ago

I wonder how many people have several older models of Raspberry Pi sitting in their drawers and collecting dust, as selling them seems to be too much of the hassle?

LeafItAlone 3y ago

I have a few of the model B version that was released in 2012, somewhere in my basement. I’m not even sure how usable these would be today.

ThatPlayer 3y ago
The original one with 256MB of RAM? The later models upped that to 512MB. I ended up breaking the full-sized SD card slot on mine.
johnklos 3y ago
I'm using several original BCM2835 Raspberry Pis and Pi Zeros (original) to compile pkgsrc packages for NetBSD on earmv4 and earmv5 because the newer ARM CPUs won't run anything below earmv6. There are some instructions the newer CPUs don't support that'd need to be emulated. With a USB attached SSD, they're quite reliable and run for many months at a time, compiling non-stop with no issues.
- moffkalast 3y ago
  Yeah anything older than the Pi 3 with armv7 is also more or less unusable in terms of OS deps, since there just aren't many package releases being maintained for v6 and below.
  - johnklos 3y ago
    I'm using them precisely to make packages available for them, so I don't think it's fair at all to say they're unusable. The OS is fully, 100% supported, so we're not even talking about that. See: http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ The number of packages available is decent and is only improving: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/
    - moffkalast 3y ago
      Ah I'm not talking about NetBSD there specifically, mainly Ubuntu and Debian since that's what I typically use. But in general the OS support isn't very good.
      - johnklos 3y ago
        You're replying to a post about NetBSD ;) Your statement, "But in general the OS support isn't very good," would be better framed as "But in general the Linux OS support isn't very good," because OS support for pre-earmv7hf and pre-aarch64 is excellent in NetBSD.
        moffkalast 3y ago
        Yep, I think we understand each other now.
blitzar 3y ago
The Pi 4 is really only a moderate step up in performance from that model.