raspberry pi OSes

[pVC]

This is quite interesting project...

And if you're going to buy Raspberry Pi, Vesalia has nice selection of them, if you want to support Amiga reseller.

[pVC]

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'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.

[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...