<div dir="ltr">DJ-Pfulio, <div><br></div><div>So Ansible works great. I have an array of SBC from Pi4/Jetson/Asus/RockChip, I use ansible on them to test. As long as you can use Python3 on a distro/computer, Ansible is happy, between them and my KVM Guest gives my AWX server a work out. Plus, keeps me on my toes on how to make sure my playbook can work with different os and releases. </div><div><br>There are SBC out there that are designed to be an NSF server ( NAS ). Odroid do a lot of cool things. Arm boards come a long way. I love to get Pine64 Phone, run openSUSE on it </div><div><br></div><div>I have use Pi3 back in the for about 1 month at work for working on my Linux Server, just needed a CLI. Remote Desktop was ok, but it can slow.</div><div><br></div><div>I knew a lot of people that use Pi3 as Kodi servers, I did that and it worked if media was local on hard drive. Over Samba or NFS wireless killed it because it had to buffer a lot. I got around with 300MB wireless usb. </div><div><br></div><div>Java needs to die!!! That's coming from a MidWare Admin who has to make Tomcat/JBoss. <br><br>I use TinkerOS on my Pi4x4, it's great but again it is not a realy desktop, so to your point has to come a long way, but with Apple releasing the Arm M1, I see more apps coming to ARM base computers. I for one love to see what NVidia has planned for ARM. <br><br>I love my Jetson. I talked with Jim this weekend about finding some good tools to see how well the 128 GPU Cores work on those. I have both the 4 Gig and 2 Gig.</div><div><br></div><div>I will be honest there no $50 pi, by the time someone get a Pi, Power Supply, Case, SD that alone is about $100, I tell my friend who one a Pi, save your money go get Dell Optiplex you can like 9020 i7 8 Gigs with 320GB HD for $100. Yes, I have more SBC that I know what to do with most are collecting dust, but I love to torture myself, must be my schooling. <br><br>Anyway, I tell my friend this when they talk about cloud computing, just call me the Rain Master because I am of those guys working to build out the computer they run on. Or to Leam point, I am the farmer. <br><br>Pup</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 4:00 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 5/19/21 3:33 PM, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:<br>
> My goal is to move my desktop to the RPi.<br>
<br>
Many things work fine on a r-pi v4, but many things do not. Try to do video editing - I dare you. ;)<br>
<br>
If all your desktop needs to support is web surfing and perhaps ssh from time to time, then a r-pi can do that, mostly. Also great for A/V playback. My mpd servers have never been happier. Scripting devel is probably fine, including running mariaDB or postgres.<br>
<br>
Things I would NOT run on a Rapberry Pi:<br>
NFS server<br>
DLNA/Plex server with transcoding<br>
Video editing<br>
Audio editing<br>
Compiling any languages<br>
Java - how can you have 32G of RAM and a 10th gen Core i7 on a rPi for java development?<br>
VM host<br>
Remote desktops<br>
VPN server<br>
<br>
I don't know how well/bad something like Ansible will work. It would probably be fine with the CLI interface.<br>
<br>
Of course, the $50 buy-in for a R-pi v4 including case and PSU means you can try all sorts of things with little risk. A r-pi v4 could always be re-deployed in the den for media playback. I use r-pi v2 and v3 for that. Works fine.<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Ale mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org" target="_blank">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
<a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>
See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>
<a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Terror PUP a.k.a<br>Chuck "PUP" Payne<br>-----------------------------------------<br>Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.<br>-----------------------------------------<br>openSUSE -- Terrorpup<br>openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member<br>skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup<br>freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein<br>Register Linux Userid: 155363<br> <br>openSUSE Community Member since 2008. </div></div></div></div>