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CentralMass

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7. Free Linux has been around a long time and I think it will continue be to for years to come.

Thu Nov 28, 2019, 11:54 PM

Nov 2019

My little credit card size single board computer is a discontinued $9 board called chip that was a kick starter funded project. It has an Arm processor, 4g of ram, wifi, ethernet port, bluetooth, micro usb and a mini hdmi port and composite video jack.
It runs Debian Linux. After I set it up the first time i just run it "headless". It is connected to my home wifi and I can remote into it with my laptop or even my phone using an ssh app. But you can connect a keyboard and mouse with usb abd a monitot

There is a better alternative called Raspberry Pi Their boards range from about $10 to $60. The $60 version has a 4-core pricessor.

Their cheapest board the Raspberry Pi Zero W is about $10. It has a single core procecessor with usb, wifi and bluetooth.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

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