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#436 Post by Lobster »

Personally I have been using an ARM chip most of the time.
However it is in an Ipad.

The Arm chip and specifically the Rpi board chip can be compiled with woof. So improvements to woof will improve the Rpi compilation.
However woof compilation has not been done for ARM for a while . . .

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#437 Post by cthisbear »

I thought the Official Crustacean had gone walkabout.

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#438 Post by darkcity »

Lobster wrote:Personally I have been using an ARM chip most of the time.
However it is in an Ipad.

The Arm chip and specifically the Rpi board chip can be compiled with woof. So improvements to woof will improve the Rpi compilation.
However woof compilation has not been done for ARM for a while . . .

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Nice to hear from you, I've updated the Woof page http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Woof. But would guess some of it is out of date. 8)

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#439 Post by Lobster »

I have been using my Ipad to engage in weird Buddhist practices . . . not using Puppy much at all . . . (I am using 5.3.3)
http://youtu.be/3tsr2xnetAY

Glad to see new Spanish pages on Wiki and updates :)
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#440 Post by darkcity »

vicmz is doing a great job, and coolpup is as busy as ever 8)

What is the origin of the YinYana technique?

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#441 Post by stu91 »

Reading on the Raspberry Pi blog all new model B Pi's will now come with 512mb of ram instead of 256mb.

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#442 Post by Lobster »

darkcity wrote: What is the origin of the YinYana technique?
We use any old rubbish . . .
Tantra, Shingon and Lobsterian insanity :shock:

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Might start looking at the rpi again . . . with a project in mind . . .
I am not going to compile the OS . . . Woof is for smarter dogs than me . . .
saw the recent guide . . . even so . . .

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#443 Post by Puppyt »

Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
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#444 Post by Lobster »

It would be feasible if there was space inside the case as the Rpi is cool running
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#445 Post by dancytron »

Puppyt wrote:Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
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You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.

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#446 Post by rokytnji »

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I like the casters under the board. Good idea for a outside case :)

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#447 Post by Lobster »

You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.
Oh sugar.
Forgot about that. Yes indeed. There is a connection converter but quite pricey . . .
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#448 Post by darkcity »

Lobster wrote:
You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.
Oh sugar.
Forgot about that. Yes indeed. There is a connection converter but quite pricey . . .
Rpi can connects to lcd, so maybe you could connect internally?

BTW thanks for the any old rubbish YinYana ; -)

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#449 Post by Puppyt »

Many thanks indeed guys for your input on the possibility of cobbling a Rasberry within a panel-PC "crust". A bit Pi in the sky perhaps - just wanted a cost-effective solution, in the event of winning a dead turkey in on-line auction of an "untested" panel PC. Probably should just hang onto my money for the time being,
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#450 Post by antiloquax »

I couldn't resist buying a 512mb RPi. It arrived within (I think) 3 days.

I'm sorry I haven't been on here for a while. I have been busy with my day-job! Teaching 5 days a week this year kind of cuts into my forum time.

I haven't done any proper benchmarking or anything with the new model. It works very nicely though.

I'm not very clear on the best memory split to use? What do other people use (on either model) it would be nice to know.

I'm also glad to see that the overclocking options have gone mainstream - so much so that the Raspbian config script lets you choose overclock settings from a GUI.

I'm still using arch day to day ...
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#451 Post by eowens2 »

@antiloquax,

Did you upgrade your Arch system from soft-float to hard-float? If so did you get much of a performance boost?

Just after I first got my R_Pi, I tried Debian Squeeze and Arch, and was quite impressed that Arch was considerably faster than Debian (at the time both distros had only soft-float).

I hope someone with the skills eventually does a Puppy version using Arch.

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#452 Post by sickgut »

dancytron wrote:
Puppyt wrote:Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
Cheers.
You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.
doesnt the rasp already have hdmi out?

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#453 Post by dancytron »

sickgut wrote:
dancytron wrote:
Puppyt wrote:Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
Cheers.
You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.
doesnt the rasp already have hdmi out?
Yeah, but the screen thing he wanted to use didn't have an HDMI in.

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#454 Post by antiloquax »

eowens2 wrote:@antiloquax,

Did you upgrade your Arch system from soft-float to hard-float? If so did you get much of a performance boost?

I hope someone with the skills eventually does a Puppy version using Arch.
Yes, The hard float speeds it up a fair bit. If you run arch with some overclock and use lightweight desktop managers (I use rox and openbox) it's really quick. I'll run some actual benchmarks soon.
Sadly, I haven't got the skills to make a full puplet.
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#455 Post by ocpaul20 »

I hope this is the correct place to put this. I see that others have posed similar requirements of touch screen, etc. Also, it does not seem like this rpi clone has been mentioned in the last 3 or 4 pages that I have read.

I have an idea to use the cubieboard www.cubieboard.org (which is an open source community-funded rasberry Pi clone - A10 1GHz processor, 1Gb ram, ethernet, SATA socket for hard drives, HDMI socket, VGA, I2C pinouts etc, roughly 80 US dollars) and to develop the screen and apps using python.

As far as I can see at them moment, I would need
basic Linux distro
Sound in/out
webcam/video in/out
Network stuff
Geany-like editor

No other apps really, but I will want to display large icons on the screen and use these as touch buttons for user input. I think the first thing is to develop a touch screen environment which just launches applications when the buttons are touched and for it to be pretty quick, but 1GHz should be OK.

Probably a bit like an industrial PC used to control machinery (touch screen rather than bespoke keyboord) or a vending machine idea.

It is very early days in this project yet and so just starting to think what I need and so I would appreciate your input please.

Is there anywhere which tells us what is compiled into the various puppies for the rasberry pi ?

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