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Re: Good ARM board for Debian?



On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:22:15PM -0400, Jerry Gagnon wrote:
> The two that come to my mind are the BeagleBone Black and the Cubieboard,
> both around the $50 mark.  Both run Raspbian, if that is good enough for
> your needs.

> http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black
> http://cubieboard.org/

There's no reason to run raspbian on either of these, that would be an
anti-optimization.  Both of these boards use new enough chips to run Debian
armhf.

-- 
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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>wrote:
> 
> > Hi again, all,
> >
> > Well, it looks like for several reasons the RaspberryPi won't work for
> > this project.  Can anyone recommend other ARM-based boards which run Wheezy
> > well?
> >
> > This is going to be a used as a monitor/controller, so major speed isn't a
> > factor.  It will mainly be using SPI and GPIO ports, plus ethernet for
> > communications.  Other things like graphics, USB ports, etc. are not
> > important for this project (but their presence doesn't rule the board out).
> >
> > Also the ability to run their ARM version of Wheezy under QEMU is
> > important for development.
> >
> > I appreciate any recommendations.
> >
> > TIA
> > Jerry

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