Pi Stays Sky High In 2015 Hacker SBC Survey

DeviceGuru writes: The results from the 2015 Hacker SBC Survey cohosted by LinuxGizmos.com and the Linux Foundation's Linux.com community site have just been announced and, not surprisingly, RPi won two of the top three slots. With 1721 voting in the survey, the ten most popular single board computers turned out to be the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, Beaglebone Black, Raspberry Pi Model B+, Odroid-C1, DragonBoard 410c, Odroid-XU3, Parallella, Arduino TRE, Edison Kit for Arduino, and Odroid-U3. The report includes scores for all 53 SBCs that were listed in the susrvey, along with data on feature preferences, targeted applications, and the nature of participants' use of [SBCs], and more.

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Wow

[Archangel Michael]

With 1721 voting

Re:Most other boards miss the point

[ArcadeMan]

All the main companies selling them use UPS to ship to Canada.

Sadly, I didn't even have to read the rest of your post to know you were going to talk about the brokerage fees. It really is insane.

I don't know why companies are so keen only offering UPS, FedEx, etc for delivery. Not everyone wants to get his orders "right fucking now", some of us prefer to pay as low as possible as long as the package arrives in good shape.

I would bet the Arduino and clones* are extremely popular in Canada because of the Chinese vendors on eBay. Free shipping, most orders arrive within two or three weeks and I only ever got duty fees on one package in over a decade, and it that was over 75$CAD in declared value.

An "Arduino Pro mini" is around 2.50$CAD, shipped. If you don't need a serial port in your project and you can use the ISP pins to program it, it's perfect for embedded projects, USB HID devices, etc.

No surprise the Pi does well

[jandrese]

The Pi hardware isn't the best, nor is it cheapest, but the community has a lot of support built around it. There are pre-built images for all sorts of tasks and people have gone and done a lot of the hard work on it. I have a Pi and a BeagleBone and the BeagleBone, although slightly faster, has some braindamage that is hard to ignore. It has a built-in version of Linux, but it's hard to update and the eMMC space is a little too small to be really useful. So you boot off of SD instead, but that requires you to hold down a button while it is booting to bypass the eMMC. But then you notice that it doesn't have as many packages available as the Pi. No Chromium for instance, so you're stuck with the really stripped down and mostly broken browsers. The worst part is that by industry standards, the Beaglebone is above average. You can pick up one of the many much more powerful and featureful AllWinner boards, but find yourself utterly stymied by the horrendous state of the documentation and lack of community. It's really hard to get real work done if you have to do all of the groundwork yourself.