(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Reading on the Raspberry Pi blog all new model B Pi's will now come with 512mb of ram instead of 256mb.

darkcity wrote: What is the origin of the YinYana technique?

We use any old rubbish . . .
Tantra, Shingon and Lobsterian insanity

YinYana
http://yinyana.tumblr.com/

Might start looking at the rpi again . . . with a project in mind . . .
I am not going to compile the OS . . . Woof is for smarter dogs than me . . .
saw the recent guide . . . even so . . .

Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
Cheers.

It would be feasible if there was space inside the case as the Rpi is cool running

Puppyt wrote:Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
Cheers.

You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.

rs

I like the casters under the board. Good idea for a outside case

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10/26/2012 9:41 PM EDT
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Just posting this for info.

You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.

Oh sugar.
Forgot about that. Yes indeed. There is a connection converter but quite pricey . . .

Lobster wrote:

You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.

Oh sugar.
Forgot about that. Yes indeed. There is a connection converter but quite pricey . . .

Rpi can connects to lcd, so maybe you could connect internally?

BTW thanks for the any old rubbish YinYana ; -)

Many thanks indeed guys for your input on the possibility of cobbling a Rasberry within a panel-PC "crust". A bit Pi in the sky perhaps - just wanted a cost-effective solution, in the event of winning a dead turkey in on-line auction of an "untested" panel PC. Probably should just hang onto my money for the time being,
Cheers

I couldn't resist buying a 512mb RPi. It arrived within (I think) 3 days.

I'm sorry I haven't been on here for a while. I have been busy with my day-job! Teaching 5 days a week this year kind of cuts into my forum time.

I haven't done any proper benchmarking or anything with the new model. It works very nicely though.

I'm not very clear on the best memory split to use? What do other people use (on either model) it would be nice to know.

I'm also glad to see that the overclocking options have gone mainstream - so much so that the Raspbian config script lets you choose overclock settings from a GUI.

I'm still using arch day to day ...

@antiloquax,

Did you upgrade your Arch system from soft-float to hard-float? If so did you get much of a performance boost?

Just after I first got my R_Pi, I tried Debian Squeeze and Arch, and was quite impressed that Arch was considerably faster than Debian (at the time both distros had only soft-float).

I hope someone with the skills eventually does a Puppy version using Arch.

dancytron wrote:

Puppyt wrote:Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
Cheers.

You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.

doesnt the rasp already have hdmi out?

sickgut wrote:

dancytron wrote:

Puppyt wrote:Just a quick question re implementation of Puppi -
I realise that you can buy cases for the Raspberry board and other similar ARM-based projects, but would it be feasible to mount it in a pre-existing case like a 2nd-hand Panel PC like the Aplex APC-3780T-15 (17" touchscreen) (e.g., http://www.thiim.com/TradePoint141/Trad ... oryKey=828) ? Not having any experience with panel PC's I thought it might make an interesting FrankenPuppy. More trouble than its worth? Touchscreen capabilities not urgent, but would be fun to have I think,
Cheers.

You need something with HDMI or DVI digital input.

doesnt the rasp already have hdmi out?

Yeah, but the screen thing he wanted to use didn't have an HDMI in.

eowens2 wrote:@antiloquax,

Did you upgrade your Arch system from soft-float to hard-float? If so did you get much of a performance boost?

I hope someone with the skills eventually does a Puppy version using Arch.

Yes, The hard float speeds it up a fair bit. If you run arch with some overclock and use lightweight desktop managers (I use rox and openbox) it's really quick. I'll run some actual benchmarks soon.
Sadly, I haven't got the skills to make a full puplet.

I hope this is the correct place to put this. I see that others have posed similar requirements of touch screen, etc. Also, it does not seem like this rpi clone has been mentioned in the last 3 or 4 pages that I have read.

I have an idea to use the cubieboard www.cubieboard.org (which is an open source community-funded rasberry Pi clone - A10 1GHz processor, 1Gb ram, ethernet, SATA socket for hard drives, HDMI socket, VGA, I2C pinouts etc, roughly 80 US dollars) and to develop the screen and apps using python.

As far as I can see at them moment, I would need
basic Linux distro
Sound in/out
webcam/video in/out
Network stuff
Geany-like editor

No other apps really, but I will want to display large icons on the screen and use these as touch buttons for user input. I think the first thing is to develop a touch screen environment which just launches applications when the buttons are touched and for it to be pretty quick, but 1GHz should be OK.

Probably a bit like an industrial PC used to control machinery (touch screen rather than bespoke keyboord) or a vending machine idea.

It is very early days in this project yet and so just starting to think what I need and so I would appreciate your input please.

Is there anywhere which tells us what is compiled into the various puppies for the rasberry pi ?