[kwlug-disc] Raspberry pi cluster setup.

[Mark Steffen]

The Pinebook Pro/Pinephone has a variety of images and distributions 
with decent-ish Arm64 support.  There are some challenges, but usually 
solutions for most.  Widevine does not support Arm64 but it is possible 
to run chromium/firefox in a docker container for armv7 support (at 
least, I think that's what is going on) and watch DRM protected content 
like Prime/Netflix/etc.  Signal doesn't have a native arm64 build but 
some folks have made their own builds that apparently work.

I don't have an Odroid unit yet, but as it is the same SOC (rockchip 
3399 based) I imagine there are similarly lots of options for distros on 
the N2+.

On my to-do list is to try to build a clustered LAMP stack on ARM, but 
time is in short supply at the moment.

Mark

On 2021-06-03 1:33 p.m., Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 12:44 PM Mark Steffen <mark at steffen.ca 
> <mailto:mark at steffen.ca>> wrote:
>
>     I have a Pi4B 8GB I think I ordered it from Amazon USA because I
>     had a
>     gift card to use up, works ok mainly using it for emulation.  I
>     have a
>     Pinebook Pro for general ARM linuxing.
>
>     But, imho, hardkernel.com <http://hardkernel.com> (odroid) has
>     some pretty interesting ARM SBCs
>     that outperform the Pi and have support for onboard eMMC without
>     using a
>     compute module/extra board.  ODROID N2+ has the same SOC as the
>     Pinebook
>     Pro and it's pretty speedy for the price.
>
>
> How is operating system support for both the Pinebook and Odroid boards?
>
> It used to be the case that these boards made in China/Korea/Taiwan would
> have an image made to go with a new board, then nothing at all after that:
> no updates, no new version, nothing ...
>
> Has this situation changed over the past few/several years?
>
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