[fpc-other] Anyone using Orange PI

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 01/03/17 10:30, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:48:16 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.fpc-other at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> the following functions fail (within fpc/lazarus calls)
>>>
>>> Params all return blank - so cant use Param(0) etc
>>> ApplicatioName returns blank
>>> ProgramDirectory returns blank
>>>
>>> There may be others, but haven't hit them yet.
>>
>> That sounds like the OS has mangled the shell in some way.
>
> And from the Orange's webpage each model has its own set of possible
> OS:es so there is a chance that it will actually work somewhere, but
> who knows where?
> With the RPi we know it works and there is ample developer support to
> plug a problem fairly quickly.

I agree. Most of our RPis are actually running Debian, but in extremis 
it's always possible to roll back to Raspbian as a baseline configuration.

There are of course other small boards: Olimex, Odroid and now Asus. 
However RPi does offer a fairly flexible and cost-effective range, and 
unless the OP is considering shipping hundreds rather than 10s of boards 
I suggest that getting onto both the Linux learning curve and one for 
minority hardware is quite simply not cost-effective.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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