WizardStan
Mega GP Mania
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After nearly 9 years of non-stop service, off only during the days between house moving, my BeagleBoard revC has blinked its last blink.
I bought it as a hold-over while the Pandora's status was in flux and it's been a happy dedicated server ever since: internet file storage, IRC, remote access point; compiled many things on it for the Pandora when the cross-compiler chain I had in place was being finicky too.
But a few days ago, sometime overnight, it became unresponsive to my pings, and even a direct serial connection only got garbage, though the heartbeat continued to blink indicating the kernel was still active. I made the fatal mistake of resetting it, and it never came back up. Tragedy. After a few days I can't even get the boot loader to respond, I think it's safe to say it's gone for good.
It is actually kind of serendipitous though; I got the BeagleBoard while waiting for the Pandora, now I can get something else while waiting for the Pyra. It's what little it would have wanted. If it were alive and not just a personification of nerdiness, that is.
Any suggestions for a suitable SBC replacement? There's so many now and I have done nearly no research.
I bought it as a hold-over while the Pandora's status was in flux and it's been a happy dedicated server ever since: internet file storage, IRC, remote access point; compiled many things on it for the Pandora when the cross-compiler chain I had in place was being finicky too.
But a few days ago, sometime overnight, it became unresponsive to my pings, and even a direct serial connection only got garbage, though the heartbeat continued to blink indicating the kernel was still active. I made the fatal mistake of resetting it, and it never came back up. Tragedy. After a few days I can't even get the boot loader to respond, I think it's safe to say it's gone for good.
It is actually kind of serendipitous though; I got the BeagleBoard while waiting for the Pandora, now I can get something else while waiting for the Pyra. It's what little it would have wanted. If it were alive and not just a personification of nerdiness, that is.
Any suggestions for a suitable SBC replacement? There's so many now and I have done nearly no research.