raspberry pi 4

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Hi,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:30:06AM -0700, Johannes Lundberg wrote:

>Please note, this is not criticism in any way and I'm not trying to
>diminish the work developers do on these boards. Everyone is free to
>work on what they want. Question is, do we want a single board computer
>that's actually usable for something or only as tinker toys? Without
>direction, I'm afraid they will always be half working tinker toys due
>to the limited amount of developers we have.
>
>If anyone disagrees, I welcome your point of view.

Thing is, everything is a "tinker toy" in a sense before it becomes a
useful device. I think if future development had to be aimed at a 
specific board make, it would make sense to aim at 64-bit 
raspberry pi due to its low cost and popularity.

I'm not a developer but an end user. I have at least one of every pi
version with the exception of the pi zero. These pi boards make great
single-purpose computers that use hardly any electrical power. 
I have one which is an internet radio, another is a nightcam for the 
badgers at the bottom of the garden, another is a split-horizon 
name server running unbound. They are *not* toys. 

The rpi4 looks like it would be a capable multi-purpose desktop.

I really hope freebsd continues to be runnable on these computers. I
read somewhere (sorry I don't have the link) that the older raspberry pi
versions are still in production as some have found a niche in industral
automation/processes, that kind of thing.
-- 
J.
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