Keep an eye on Raspberry Pi for wfrog

[PK]

An interesting and capable little £35 card computer is on its way out:
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

It has network, usb, even HDMI and many other connection
possibilities, 256 MB ram and runs Fedora or Debian 6 (and others)
Linux. Python is planned as the main programming language. Later more
parts will be available, such as a neat case. Card size is 86x54 mm.

SD-card is used as disk, and it would probably be possible to create a
ready-to-use image with wfrog and Linux to download to the SD-card.

Something for wfrog?
/PK

[Jordi Puigsegur Figueras]

Hi,

I've already set up 4 wfrog boxes using ALIX3D2 and voyage linux. They are very reliable and its electricity consumption is very low (only 5W). It looks like the raspberry py is similar in power but much less expensive. It looks like a very good option. Another similar option was the Sheeva plug.

I recommend any one using a regular computer with wfrog to calculate the yearly electricity bill. This type of low power computers pay themselves in less than a year.

Jordi.

2012/3/21 PK <pk2...@gmail.com>

[schuckle]

Just a quick comment that as I got my raspberry last week, I can confirm that wfrog works out-of-box with it. No problems at all. I use the debian image.
wflogger takes about 5% cpu but wfrender uses 100% for quite some time, so it is not super fast, but it works and is useable.

[Jordi Puigsegur Figueras]

Several colleagues have also a Raspeberry. Seems to work OK although they've had some problems with unexpected hangs. Good price!

Regarding the 100% CPU utilization of the renderer, I am testing an improvement to reduce part of this usage (a cache of calculated values so that wfrog does not have to read all data every time it starts).

Jordi.

2012/7/20 schuckle <schuc...@gmail.com>