On 14 October 2014 18:43, Ewan Slater ewan.slater@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 October 2014 15:38, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
On 13 October 2014 16:26, Ewan Slater ewan.slater@gmail.com wrote: (Aside: Actually I'm planning to use these: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME/open-source... .. rather than the Pi; quite a bit more powerful and a bit more "industrial" but still only 33 Euros, and fully open source design.)
Those look fun - I may have to treat myself to one (or two)!
If you do, and if you plan to use the I/O, note that they use a 0.05" pitch rather than 0.1" as per the Pi (and almost everything else!), which is great for getting more stuff in a small space, but less good when it comes to actually using them. I mention it because although shipping in Europe is cheap, it's a bit of a pain having to then go back and separately order cables that you didn't think you'd need first time around!
Also: The supplied Debian image seems OK but expect to be pretty much on your own after that (there's far less support for it than the Pi, for example).
For me it's well worth a look though; the extra power is very useful, the wider temperature range seems handy to have, and it also has built in battery charging so you can connect a cheap battery that then acts as a UPS. I'd also have said that MicroSD is a plus but the current crop of Pis have caught up there (but on the flipside a lot of Pi cases no longer fit and one of the best things about the Pi was the ecosystem around it).
I have today found: http://www.consul.io/ ... which looks promising, and pretty lightweight.
It does. I'd be interested to know how it works out
Well as a simple KV store it's trivial to set up and use (download a binary and run it, a couple of commands later you have a distributed multi-master KV store that is pretty responsive from the tests I've done so far). I haven't had time to push it very hard but it looks like a great starting point.