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Raspberry Pi's Smaller, Cheaper Rival: NanoPi Neo Plus2 Weighs in at $25 (zdnet.com)
FriendlyARM, the maker of compact NanoPi developer boards, has released the NanoPi Neo Plus2 for $25. From a report: This board is an update to the recently released NanoPi Neo 2, a $15 cookie-sized developer board measuring 40mm x 40mm (1.6in) with a 64-bit Allwinner H5 processor, 512MB RAM, and one USB port. The NanoPi Neo Plus2 is slightly larger at 52mm x 40mm (2in x 1.6in) and has two USB ports. It has the same H5 quad-core A53 ARM Cortex processor, but comes with 1GB RAM and 8GB eMMC storage. The NeoPlus2's storage in addition to Gigabit Ethernet puts it ahead of the Raspberry Pi 3 on paper, and at $25 undercuts the better-known board by $10.
It seems like the summary is wrong. Or at least it disagrees with this wiki page http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wi...
I tried an OrangePiLite. The WiFi was unsupported, the Ethernet port was removed to make way for it, and USB Ethernet and WiFi adapters I tried did not work with the Linux images supplied. Not worth the time given Rpi's work.
John_Chalisque
The original purpose behind the Raspberry Pi is to give to kids to plug into the TV and start experimenting. I think replacing the display ports with a serial port might hinder this somewhat.
Most of the Allwinner boards will quite happily boot and run on 100% open source code these days,
Awesome! Can you provide any instructions or links to make my CubieBoard 4 with Allwiner A80 not useless?
sunxi linux still lists most things as not supported and not worked on: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_m...
Under GPL violations they list:
As is usual, there are the libnand and libisp violations. But with A80, Allwinner decided to step this up a notch, or two, or all the way to 11.
I haven't checked recently but Ubuntu and Debian were both at least 1-2 versions out of date.
And that's putting aside the reset issues if you put it under any sort of load for over a few minutes.
Yeah, no GPU. You need to use a USB-to-TTL adapter to bring them up the first time or you have to put in the effort in setting up the SD card to boot it headless.
Once they're up and running, NEO's are decent little units. Armbian installs painlessly.
A major problem with the NEO's is that their documentation and tools for using the GPIO's is, apparently, shit. I've got some NEO's, but I haven't tried to do anything with the GPIO's so it hasn't been a problem for me.
I would never pay $25 for one, though. At $10 each it's an attractive buy. At $25 it's worth the extra $10 to get the real thing.
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