Subj : Raspberry Pi 4.. 8gb baby
To   : paulie420
From : Dennisk
Date : Sun Jul 12 2020 12:10:00

-=> paulie420 wrote to DOVE-Net.Hardware_Softwar <=-

 pa> So I received a package yesterday.. I ordered 2 RPi's in the 8gb
 pa> variety. I am simply amazed at the entire life of Raspberry Pi
 pa> machines. I was a buyer of the very first one, and that blew my mind
 pa> some 5 or so years ago... where RPi has come is just as awesome!

 pa> A few weeks ago I decided to try out Ubuntu Mate with my RPi 4 1gb
 pa> model... you can install Ubuntu Server, and from there perform a couple
 pa> tweaks to fix some WiFi & other issues; ultimately putting mate on top
 pa> and having a full Ubuntu install. Well, I got as far as that anyway...
 pa> Userver went on without a hitch, and the tweaks were fine... heck, even
 pa> mate went on without a hitch... but that's where the party ended. 1gb
 pa> just wasn't enough to do anything. Open one chromium browser and the
 pa> memory load would get to the high 8-900s, rendering the RPi worthless.
 pa> Ah ha, but fast forward to NOW with more memory...

 pa> (I've preface with the fact that I've heard good things about Ubuntu
 pa> Mate on RPi with as little as 2gb, or the 4GB variety..) but boy oh
 pa> boy, this 8gb does the trick! I'm getting solid, do I even say good!?-
 pa> performance... it'll play 4K video- I did turn on some video graphics
 pa> tweaks to give the GPU its own dedicated memory; and had to turn on
 pa> access to that in chromium... but it flies now.

 pa> I just can't believe for less than $75 you can get a machine that runs
 pa> Ubuntu really well... sure it's still ARM, but I think software will
 pa> continue to support it more and more; I envision a time when ARM even
 pa> gets more popular...

 pa> At any rate, I highly suggest the RPi 4 8gb model- BBSes? Done.
 pa> Coding/programming/playing with hardware? Done. You're all [mostly]
 pa> from me era; we were paying $5000 or more in 1995 for this computer!

 pa> Anyone else have good experience with this new RPi? I have tons of
 pa> projects and production pi's:

 pa> Home assistant
 pa> BBS server
 pa> RetroPie emulation
 pa> FreeBSD box for hardware hacking
 pa> Kiwix Wireless Access Point server

 pa> What are YOU doing with raspberry?

I have the Raspberry Pi B, so an older, slower one.  Its either used to
download large files overnight, or used by my daughter to play Minecraft Pi. 
It mostly serves the latter purpose!

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