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joeofloath

VMware is virtualisation software, not emulation or simulation software. It will give VMs access to the host's hardware, an x86 or x86_64 CPU and some memory. The Raspberry Pi has an ARM CPU, so software written for it will not work on regular desktop machines. You can, however, use something like Q...

joeofloath

I'm only interested if it will play vinyl.

Also relevant: http://gizmodo.com/363154/audiophile-de ... oat-hanger

joeofloath

http://www.pcworld.com/busines.....linux.html

joeofloath

<t>The only problem I can forsee with the Pi is the shared USB bus - USB2 is saturated when copying to an external hard drive, and sharing that with ethernet means that you won"t get very good speeds. No harm in trying, but if you want a little beef, you can pick up x86 fanless thin clien...

joeofloath

In a word

No.

Not only is there no Linux port for either, the Pi isn"t x86, so can"t run them under WINE either.

joeofloath

Once you've bought the screens and the DVD drives/storage, you might as well have just bought a couple of those little portable DVD players from Argos.

Alternately, just give them a book to read :p

joeofloath

<t>gregd99 said: I wonder about the memory as well. I have a PC with 4G that dual boots windows and Ubuntu. Under Ubuntu running libre office word it consumes around 500k of RAM with a standard 11.10 distribution. At the other end of the scale I use atMega's w...

joeofloath

What's wrong with using cron and bash scripts?

joeofloath

Desktop Linux is server Linux. The software packages are just different. Don't want a gui? Remove it. Want LAMP? Install it!

joeofloath

<t>Pretty sure it was an ELO touchscreen I configured for the university radio station a few months back. I plugged it in, and it 'just worked', aside from the Y axis was inverted. I spent hours trying to fix it, before realising that actually, a calibration utility was in the Ubuntu repo...

joeofloath

Don't bother with a GUI for a server, it'll never get used and sucks up loads of memory. If you want a GUI interface for managing it, use one of the many web control panels instead.

joeofloath

Personally I think five nimh cells (6v nominal) and a 5v regulator would make much more sense than trying to use four.

joeofloath

<t>Huulivoide said: Also Ubuntu ships with EXTREAMLY old applications as thats how they define word "stable".. but if you like and want to use Firefox 3.1 instead of current version 10.0.1 Ubuntu is the way to go. [Instead of offering a never version of app with the security patche...

joeofloath

<t>Jessie said: Most viruses are spread (or at least started) at the scocial level. A linux server which is un-manned is way less likely to get a virus even if the playing level was even (assuming there were as many Linux viruses) because it dosn't have a dumb person attached to i...

joeofloath

What's all this worry about swap?

You really don't need it. Every computer I've ever put *nix on has either never used it, or run out of memory and hung because the swap space is too slow.

joeofloath

Memory won't be a problem, I run a completely unoptimized LAMP server (PHPBB forum) on a VPS with 512mb of RAM, and it's currently sitting at 140mb of memory being used.

Which reminds me, I should contact the hosts to see if I can move to a cheaper plan...

joeofloath

I'm not experienced, but you'll want to set your compiler of choice (Hint: gcc) to cross compile to the architecture of the Pi, which off the top of my head is Armv7.

joeofloath

<t>Security by obscurity isn't the only reason Linux viruses are rare, remember that about 70% of web servers run Linux, yet there's no market for antivirus there. Anyway, the open source community is usually pretty good at patching vulnerabilities, if anything gets out into the wild, exp...

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<t>JamesH said: Benedict White said: Jessie, I think you misunderstand. There are efforts to reverse engineer the Mali GPU's blob, not the actual processor to make it entirely open source in the same way NVidia GPU's were reversed engineered. ...

joeofloath

I can't answer #1, but iceweasel is identical to FF for all intensive purposes. 99.9% of the addons will work fine, and your browsing experience will be identical. I believe you even launch it in the terminal by running firefox, and all the config files are in ~/.mozilla/firefox.

joeofloath

Nope, that doesn't happen in Linux.

I actually have a webserver that's been running constantly for 300 days, and that's normal for a Linux box. Still serves pages just as fast as it did on day one!

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