Igor_K

The rule of thumb is there is nothing free in the Internet you have to pay one way or another

At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS announced the launch of Arm-based servers for EC2. Prices are very close to t3 types. a1.large 2CPU/4 GB RAM - $0.0510 per hour ( ~$37 per month) t3.medium 2CPU/4 GB RAM - $0.0416 per hour (~ $30 per month) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-instances-a1-powered-by-arm-based-aws-graviton-processors/

I wouldn't say OSMC is better. It is different. And it probably fits better for some use cases but not for others. In general, OpenELEC is considered a dead project, LibreELEC can be a better option. It has a vibrant community and it is in an active development.

🤔The wrong part is probably that it does not work for me. I only see the message on a terminal window and armbian-config is in kinda a loop, it repeats it all the time.

Hi, There is a fresh new install. armbian-config fails with a message "There are no targets. Please check your drives". BOARD=nanopineo BOARD_NAME="NanoPi Neo" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i VERSION=5.65 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage System diagnosis http://ix.io/1sm3

`dd` is already installed. just as an option.

@guidol I suspected that but I've just received the confirmation from FriendlyArm So a Mini Shield can be used with a the model as well. I'm too lazy to copy-paste images here but when I tried to compare pinout diagrams of duo and duo2 there have been flipped upside down. So even an image editor would not help me to compare them. Check the images.

@guidol I see. It makes sense. It is compatible with a shield board most likely. PS What a weird sense of humor 🤦🏻‍♂️ check out pinout diagrams of duo and duo2

I don't get why there is Half-size SSD in options? (just a bug?)

@NicoD Indeed. At least @odroid claimed they tested 32 GB and it worked.

I think it can be a good option for a home server still. I'm probably wrong but seems like other motherboards in $130-180 price range only support up to 16Gb RAM.

@tommy I doubt any SBC below $20 would provide an acceptable desktop user experience. Probably orange pi pc would be an option, but I've got no real experience with orangepi.

@tommy the best sbc for what? What is your use case?

wow that is impressive

@chwe "TV box with Linux" means TV box with Android?