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Which would you get Rasberry PI 2 or Gizmo 2 and why?

libernullmal

Just curious between the two and I wanted to know what the pros and cons between the two?

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  • As others have mentioned, the big advantage of Raspberry Pi over gizmo2 is the low power consumption.

     

    But still I would prefer a Gizmo2 for use as a PC because of the x86 architecture. Accessing internet would be one of the main use cases as a PC. Like it or not, many websites still have flash content. The support for flash on ARM architecture has been stopped for quite some time. Flash plugin taken from chromebook can be found online, but those could be big security risk. The only secure and supported flash plugin seems to be the pepper-flash plugin developed for chrome/chromium, and they are AFAIK available only for x86

  • in reply to najath

    Google Chrome cannot be installed on Raspberry Pi, because Google does not have support for Linux/ARM.

    But Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome can be installed on a Raspberry Pi box, for both Arch Linux and Debian:

     

    I got this quote from a good source najath. So you are kinda of right, unless you consider Chromium. I plan on trying soon and will let you know how flash works.

    Clem

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  • in reply to najath

    Google Chrome cannot be installed on Raspberry Pi, because Google does not have support for Linux/ARM.

    But Chromium, the open-source version of Google Chrome can be installed on a Raspberry Pi box, for both Arch Linux and Debian:

     

    I got this quote from a good source najath. So you are kinda of right, unless you consider Chromium. I plan on trying soon and will let you know how flash works.

    Clem

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  • in reply to clem57

    I tried Chromium on another ARM board - SABRE Lite which I had obtained thanks to element14. The ARM board is good enough for most use cases. But unfortunately pepper-flash was not available packaged for ARM devices. I used one that I got after an online search, and which was extracted from a chromebook. It worked reasonably well too. But for each update, I had to search the web for finding the latest version.

     

    Later I got an Intel NUC with Atom processor. So now I'm experimenting with it and have set it up as my home cloud and entertainment platform.

     

    If you find a simple and secure way of getting flash work on ARM devices, do let me know. I can then make some use of the SABRE Lite board

  • in reply to najath

    Ok! I will play for a few days and let you know.