[arm-allstar] Raspberry Pi alternative

Ken Arck ken at arcomcontrollers.com
Thu Sep 1 09:59:04 EDT 2022


I have a Pi4 (4 gig RAM) and a couple of Pi3+ available

Let the bidding begin!

Ken



At 06:33 PM 8/31/2022, you wrote:
>Any Raspberry pi stays sold out for most part. There very hard to come by.
>
>John W7JSM
>
>On Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 12:11 "am_fm_radio--- via ARM-allstar" <
>arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > I've had Orange Pi's on order since May...Not even a tracking number..
> > Bought them through Aliexpress.
> > In July, my alternative was to go to Refurbished HP Chrome books..for $55
> > delivered.
> > https://www.newegg.com/p/1TS-000D-03CA7?Item=9SIA22F8SR9502
> >
> > Dave, W1HKJ, has a complete description on how to reconfigure a chrome
> > book for dual boot, or just a Linux boot. More about it is here:
> > http://www.w1hkj.com/chromebook/
> >
> > Start with http://www.w1hkj.com/chromebook/chromebook_linux.html
> >
> > The process leaves the ChromeOS intact and always available as a boot
> > selection.
> >
> > I loaded mine with Linux Mint- As I have that on an old PC in the shack..
> > Others have loaded Ham-Pi on a 64GbSD card.. Both mine have great displays.
> >
> > Now even though I bought 2 HP chromebooks, I have not tried loading
> > Hamviop on it as it is an intel processor. dual core, but would be fast
> > enough.. THe results would be , the chromebook has keyboard, display and
> > tablet mouse and 2 USB's..
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