raspberry pi OSes

[nicholas]

I'm using one of those 3rd party minimal Raspbian installations and I'm building my server over it. Too bad Raspberrys can be unreliable with SD cards, so I wouldn't use it for lots of writes and too important stuff... unless you have external HD to store stuff, it might be better.

I planned to use my 16GB class 10 card for server, but it has got corrupted few times already. Smaller class 2 and 4 cards seem to be more reliable... so I ordered 32GB class 4 card and will see if it would work better.

Try:

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sudo fstrim -v /
Then add noatime, nodiratime, discard to the mount options of your sdcard in /etc/fstab

[Linde]

It really depends on what you want to do with it. Raspbian can be fairly neat once you clean out the bloat. On the other hand, I only use mine as an email server.

I suggest that instead of cleaning out the bloat, you start from the installer instead of using a preinstalled image. This way you can just not install the whole graphical desktop category of packages. The only hassle I had was that I had to replace some of the included boot firmware blobs to ones that support model B to get the installer to boot.

I've been using one as a server with Arch Linux, which has always been a hassle to maintain, and I switched to Raspbian as soon as I found out that you can shrink it down in the installer.

[Dr. Chef]

RISC OS is a decent OS. It might not have a gigantic array of software, but the desktop is easy to use. It's also fast compared to Raspbian.

[pVC]

I suggest that instead of cleaning out the bloat, you start from the installer instead of using a preinstalled image. This way you can just not install the whole graphical desktop category of packages. The only hassle I had was that I had to replace some of the included boot firmware blobs to ones that support model B to get the installer to boot.

I just can't understand why they still haven't fixed the installer to work with 512M model, which has been the most popular version for a while now. This is that hyped and sold platform that you shouldn't need this much hacking to get something working...

[commodorejohn]

It's Linux, you wind up having to hack it no matter how "user-friendly" it's claimed to be...