Quite. Quite.
Posted on 02/02/2015 5:11:44 AM PST by ShadowAce
Interesting. Some good tips.
Is the price really just $35 for this? http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi-accessories
$35 + S/H, I’d guess. Not sure if they charge tax, either.
Quite. Quite.
That’s awesome! Of course TOR isn’t really secure, but it is better than open access.
You know what would be cool. Build two of these. One that you plant/hide at an office building or restaurant that has open internet access. And the other one you take with you. Then VPN into the hidden one and get “anonymous” Internet access from a store hundreds of miles away from your home.
“... , but there are plenty of custom Linux distros focusing on the Pi. I have 3 of them and use them for multimedia centers in my home. They’re amazing.”
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Please post which distos you have for the Pi, and which of those you like best, and if possible, why!
If you enjoy Fedora Linux, PIdora is an excellent analog. It’s a bit clunky to configure, but it’s just as powerful as Fedora if you want to set up a cheap web server, for instance.
OpenElec is a decent XBMC (now Kodi) system for multimedia. If you have a NAS with old movies or picture galleries, it works great. We use OpenElec over RaspBMC for our music library. It’s a little bit less glitchy with Amazon and Pandora.
RaspBMC is hands-down the best multimedia player for the Pi. We use it for home movies and the digital copies we receive with newer DVD/BR movies. It supports Dolby 7.2 and is just as functional if not moreso than our Samsung BR player.
And finally, SNUbuntu (Snappy Ubuntu) is a great Ubuntu distro for the Pi that offers the same functionality as any other Ubuntu distro. I personally use it for a LAMP “server” for FTP to/from my home network.
Superb information! Thanks a whole bunch.
Now for a tough question, if you are able ...
There is a multi-boot from USB or SD utility named YUMI. I use it to multi-boot several live Linux distros on my current PC. Do you know if I could use this on the Pi? Assuming you don’t know, are you willing to do a quick, one pass, test to see if you are able to manage that? I found it quite simple to set up and use YUMI.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
I think I am going to be getting into this Pi technology very soon regardless, given this current article, especially given your answer to me here.
Again, regardless of your answer to this post, Thanks Very Much!
I am familiar with YUMI, and I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work on a Pi. I’ve booted into NOOBS, which is the shipped OS for most Pis, on an SD and done a live boot to Ubuntu on a USB drive without a single issue. The problem with the Pi is that there’s not a ton of local RAM to use, so you’re forced to local cache on the removable media. It doesn’t slow anything down, it’s just a consideration if paging is an issue in your OS.
Food for thought...
I think that the 1GB RAM on the Pi2 will be very sufficient, so long as the YUMI bootloader is recognized by the BIOS on the Pi. Puppy Linux requires very little RAM to begin with and you make it sound as if more demanding distros run just fine.
I’ll be getting a couple of these soon to play with, just as soon as I find out what to do for a display, as I have no HDMI monitors or TVs at this time.
The older Pi board has an RCA video out. It appears they replaced it on the newer boards.
hmmmm... maybe use an older Pi simply as an interface to RCA out for one of the newer ones - ganging them together when needed. Sounds like that is getting a bit more involved than makes sense, though.
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