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Re: Q: non-x86 build machine for Ruby upstream developers



Quoting Pascal Giard (2014-06-08 04:16:08)
> Le 2014-06-07 à 11:23, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> a écrit :
>
>> I'd heartily recommend getting a hardkernel's Odroid-U3:
>> http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php
>> 
>> For $59 you get a 4-core 1.7-2.0Ghz 2GB mem machine that runs Debian 
>> natively (ships with Android or Ubuntu but getting Debian is a matter 
>> of downloading and dd-ing an image).
>
> Got one of those for research, _very_ nice. However, beware, they only 
> ship through FedEx and, at least for Canada, FedEx were damn 
> expensive.
>
> In the end, what was suppose to be 59$ ended up costing "me" 130$.
>
> That's a pity as it's really a nice board/computer.

Here is a shortlist of alternative boards, in case e.g. SATA interface 
outweighs CPU speed, or if Open Hardware is a priority as well): 
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware

 - Jonas

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