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What is benefit of buying a Pi rather than Linux Partition.

KeithSloan

I would like to read people thoughts on the benefits of buying a Rasberry Pi rather than just installing Linux in a partition on the family PC and dual booting.

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  • Well, you really don't need a Raspberry Pi to use Linux. Any standard PC is good for that and it will still be much more powerful in terms of number crunching etc. than the RasPi. You just can't get any other computer of that size, power consumption and versatility for that prize.

     

    If many people ordered a Pi just to look "what this Linux thing is about" I wouldn't be surprised if there will be many used ones available on ebay etc. in a few months... we'll see. At the other hand it's not the worst thing; the RasPi comes with a few readily available *real* Linux distribution while most of the Linux Netbooks available for a short time in the past (likely to be the only linux-driven devices with a visible linux ever hitting the real consumer market and not only specialised people knowing where and what to order) had been preloaded with some pretty downsized and extremely tailored Linux distributions not showing the real possibilities of that OS.

     

    Regards

       Peter

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  • Well, you really don't need a Raspberry Pi to use Linux. Any standard PC is good for that and it will still be much more powerful in terms of number crunching etc. than the RasPi. You just can't get any other computer of that size, power consumption and versatility for that prize.

     

    If many people ordered a Pi just to look "what this Linux thing is about" I wouldn't be surprised if there will be many used ones available on ebay etc. in a few months... we'll see. At the other hand it's not the worst thing; the RasPi comes with a few readily available *real* Linux distribution while most of the Linux Netbooks available for a short time in the past (likely to be the only linux-driven devices with a visible linux ever hitting the real consumer market and not only specialised people knowing where and what to order) had been preloaded with some pretty downsized and extremely tailored Linux distributions not showing the real possibilities of that OS.

     

    Regards

       Peter

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