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comment by veen
veen  ·  2901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 21, 2016

I can see that, but because of import costs the Black is twice the cost of a Pi. Plus, hacking around is part of the fun.





dublinben  ·  2901 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If the cost difference is that much, that's pretty reasonable. By hacking, I just mean that the Pi isn't actually supported by the mainline kernel of mainstream distributions. It requires specific proprietary firmware to boot that will limit you to only running specialized operating systems like "rasbpian."

veen  ·  2901 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I figured as much. The Pi to me is more an 'Arduino with added Linux' than a 'PC with less functionality'. I also haven't done anything with Linux so far so I'm more than happy with a proprietary-ish kernel.