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Geek Culture / Anyone know of any Ras' Pi alt boards that run windows?

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SpyDaniel
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Anyone know of any boards like the Raspberry Pi that come built to run windows OS's on?
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The Zoq2
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Posted: 17th Sep 2013 00:33 Edited at: 17th Sep 2013 00:35
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My guess is that there are none. First of all, windows is pretty resource intensive using 1 gig of ram atleast on startup, it might be possible to run windows RT on a raspi like board but I think it would be prettys slow. Then there is the cost, linux is free, windows costs a lot of money (about 3 times the cost of a raspberry pi). I also believe that windows is not as good as linux when it comes to handeling "physical" output like the pi which would make it pretty useles...


Out of curiosity, what are you planning to do with it?

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SpyDaniel
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Was basically thinking of using them as mini servers to run game servers on, I know you can host a version of minecraft on a RasPi but not sure if I could actually run any thing decent on them. Maybe it's better spending £250 on a cheap desktop for a server?
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Libervurto
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Why on earth would you want to use Windows on a Raspberry Pi!??

Quote: "Was basically thinking of using them as mini servers to run game servers on"

Can you not do this with a GNU/Linux OS?


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Chris Tate
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Interesting. Why do you want to use a Rasberry Pi as a game server?

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SpyDaniel
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- I have used Linux a few times, but I am at home with windows.

- For the small amount of space it takes up.
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Van B
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You could look at small form factor PC's, some of them can be absolutely tiny... but it's not something you can do on the cheap I'm afraid, your really talking laptop prices for those.

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Look into Intel NUC computers, not cheap though... maybe find a second hand one...

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Libervurto
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Quote: "- I have used Linux a few times, but I am at home with windows."

Windows really isn't suited to something like the Pi. Linux runs on anything. There's plenty of help online for both Linux and Pi users/tinkerers. If you really want to avoid Linux then you're going to have to buy much more expensive machines.


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SpyDaniel
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I'm happy to use Linux with a GUI, I was just thinking about some of the games etc that will only run on windows.

Main thing about these mobile boards that I am interested in, just purely for fun and learning, I like to tinker with things. If I could get one to run a server, it would be an added bonus.

I have a question though, I have heard people say you can link these boards up, to increase the specs, is this even possible? Could I link 4 up and have it all work and basically be running 2GB of RAM and a 2GHz CPU? (Raspi Version B, which has 512RAM and some thing like a 500 odd Mhz CPU).
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Quote: "I have a question though, I have heard people say you can link these boards up, to increase the specs, is this even possible? Could I link 4 up and have it all work and basically be running 2GB of RAM and a 2GHz CPU? (Raspi Version B, which has 512RAM and some thing like a 500 odd Mhz CPU)."

Parallel processing? Yes it's certainly possible. I googled "parallel computing raspberry pi" and got a a few interesting looking links.

Check this out! http://www.zdnet.com/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards-7000015831/


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