Message: 3 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:37:20 -0400 From: Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> To: "app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] ACID (Centos 6.7) Message-ID: <BLU171-W90523528449024752B2322BA510@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

It would be a whole lot easier to just use an RPi2! 73 Doug WA3DSP

I guess if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The RPi is a nice board and lots of projects have been built using that platform. But not every AllStar install is suited to the RPi. I have one of the QRV quad boards running 3 repeaters and a IC-706 remote base. The QRV board is a PCI bus, where do I plug that into a RPi? The Intel, AMD and VIA are still viable platforms and have their place today and years to come. Yes, I've heard the refrain, "The RPi is cheap, just add a second RPi" Well, for some applications that's fine. You get 2 IP address to maintain, 2 configuration files to maintain and 2 SDcards. There are times we want everything in one box. I did create scripts for the RPi1, RPi2, BBB, X86, and the APC VIA to run AllStar on Debian. No image needed. No waiting for someone else to build and bless a image. It's very easy to build a image for a platform like the RPi since the hardware is written in stone. Quite a few people are running The Debian scripts to build nodes on everything from a hub in a data center running on a Virtual Machine to the RPi1 running simplex nodes and everything in between. I did help one user build his hub on Ubuntu because that's what he had. The scripts are built for Debian, but there is nothing stopping anyone from using the concepts to build AllStar on Centos or any other Linux platform for that matter. I am not a Centos guy. I prefer Debian and have been running AllStar on Debian for the last 8 years. ACID is fine for some hardware as is Limey Linux for that matter. I just prefer doing it on Debian. To that end, I have built a Debian X86 bare metal installer. It will take someone from nothing to a running AllStar node with a single key press. See: <https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar/wiki/X86-Debian-Bare-Metal-Install> We all have been told over and over that things we have made work, could not work. Well, they do. Are there problems and bugs in AllStar? Sure there are. Anything over 10 lines of code has a bug. Jim has proved over and over through the years that he will find and squash them. Some with our help, and lots on his own. 73, Steve N4IRS < https://github.com/N4IRS/AllStar>