On 06/11/2017 01:07 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 6/10/2017 9:19 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I recommend the Cubieboards or Linkspirt. The advantage of both of >> these over a RaspberryPI: >> >> Mainline kernel. See what it takes for a special RPi kernel over on >> the Centos-arm list. >> Sata interface. What are you going to run your stuff on? A slow SD >> card or a slow USB drive? > > > I use Rasbian on my pi's. its pretty hard to beat $35 for the pi3 > if cost is important. > Not only am I able to run Centos on my Cubie armv7s (medon and onlo are outwardly facing), I have Redsleeve 7 running on an old Pogoplug Kirkwood armv5. I do have to use a Fedora-arm 18 kernel for armv5. Oh and ClearOS7 on my Windows file server. So I basically have the same OS on all my servers. Though I have been around *nix for 20+ years, it is not my business, and having one OS keeps my life simpler.