On 14/01/17 03:20, David C. Rankin wrote:
I ended up buying 2 SD cards: SanDisk 16GB Ultra microSDHC UHS-I/Class 10 Memory Card with Adapter, Speed Up to 80MB/s (SDSQUNC-016G-GN6MA)
$5.99 at newegg
and the 64GB version (SDSQUNC-064G-GN6MA) for $14.99.
As I've posted earlier in the thread, with cards of this nature, I really can't tell too much of a difference on network I/O to/from the pi, LXDE desktop loading is a bit slower, but more than usable for word-processing, web-browsing, etc.. Rasbian has virtually all desktops available for install, from blackbox to fluxbox to wmII to kde4, etc. (now I would expect kde4 to be slow -- it (and plasma/fw5) are slow on my i7 laptop w/8G)
I'm using a Raspberry Pi2 as a headless server (email, dhcp, dns, ntp etc.) at home and it's great for that. I would caution that MicroSD cards are not designed for use as a primary Unix filesystem run 24/7 so expect to replace them every few months. It goes without saying that you need a robust backup regime so I use rsnapshot for that. On my nice-to-have list is the PiDrive, an HDD specifically for Raspberry Pi from Western Digital, to obviate that problem. Regards, Chris R. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org