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Turbo-Pi!

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 19, 2012 by RGSeptember 19, 2012

The recent announcement regarding ‘overclocking’ the Raspberry Pi was too good to ignore: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008 So, as most Pi stuff seems to be Debian-centric these days, this is how I did it for Fedora…    This method should also work for any other distro.. You will need to compile and install the latest version of the Pi 3.2.27 kernel … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Fedora, Linux / ARM, Performance, Raspberry Pi | Tagged overclocking, performance, raspberry pi, raspi-config tool, turbo | 1 Reply

Linux ARM and SD Card Performance – Let the Fun Begin!

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 21, 2012 by RGApril 21, 2012

Despite previous ‘tweaks’, I have been experiencing continuing problems with SD Card Linux performance, and with the unreliable operations of yum / rpm, with associated db corruption, when they have to be ‘killed’ after hanging.. Based on two excellent pieces of prior research: http://blogofterje.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/optimizing-fs-on-sd-card/     and    http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-general/optimizing-linux-for-flash-memory – I will be having a stimulating (!) time performing formatting … Continue reading →

Posted in Crash and Burn.., Dreamplug, Fedora, Hacks, Linux / ARM, Performance, Raspberry Pi | Tagged arm, dreamplug, formatting, hacks, linux, performance, raspberry pi, sd card | Leave a reply

Pi Performance?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 19, 2012 by RGApril 19, 2012

I had intended to persevere with the Fedora 14 ‘respin’, despite it being (correctly, IMHO..) described as ‘a bit buggy’..     Performance was improved with the newer 3.1.9+ kernel image, without the debug messages, but overall the response was still very sluggish..    I selected XFCE as the UI, as I had used this – successfully – with Fedora … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Raspberry Pi | Tagged arch linux, debian, fedora, opinion, performance, raspberry pi, tests, xfce | Leave a reply
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