Does anyone here use a Pi as a small home server? Instead of one of those VPS things I'd like to use one at home for some programming / school fun. I was thinking of trying Gentoo or a BSD for this one (I have an Arch, have used all the normie distros in school/work).
Some other questions:
-How's compiling on it?
-In how little time could I configure it to run screenless with only SSH to meddle into it, if I'm used to installing Arch (ie. my install got fucked up multiple times by the Windows image also living on this computer).
Gabriel Howard
well for starters im not even sure that gentoo runs on it second it takes literally seconds to get it running headless
Ian Collins
go for raspbian or void, nigger.
Jeremiah Hall
Yup, there's an entry on the Gentoo wiki of Gentoo running on it, they advise compiling on PC and chrooting into the SD installation, but I'd like to use it for some idiotic remote compilation service I wanna try doing.
>debian I'll look up void, thanks
Brayden Gomez
bad idea, pis are slow compared to PCs and if you compile on them you're gonna end up with arm binaries unless you set up a cross compiler, which is a gigantic pain in the ass. i would know, i have to deal with these fucking toolchains to build embedded crap for avr and stm32.
Adam Nguyen
A Pi is fine for compiling small projects. Stop trying to sound smarter than you are, no one is going to realistically try and compile large libraries or large embedded tools.
Nicholas Butler
yes >-How's compiling on it? fast
Hudson Reyes
>-In how little time could I configure it to run screenless with only SSH to meddle into it, Download rapsbian lite dd it to your m. sd card ssh into it with default creds, change the password with passwd
Zachary Gray
is it fine for compiling whatever you need on the pi? absolutely, will it suck for op's intended use: a remote compiling service? yep dealing with cross compiling is so much worse than the speed, though. hope OP wants remotely compiled arm binaries. PS no one "builds large embedded tools," they download them.
Levi Parker
I run rasbian on mine with a 2TB external usb hdd
Its really amazing for how cheap it is and how easy to setup.
Its the entry point to ssh into my home network. And I run an rtorrent server, and apache server on it and have backup scripts for my laptop and pc for it. I highly recommend you get one.
Jack White
In the newest version of Rasbian you have to put a file called "ssh" in /boot, as its disabled by default. Took me a while to figure out
Henry Harris
>they disable ssh by default literally why
Leo Brown
So retards dont get hacked because they dont change the default password
Samuel Morgan
this, pretty much
Minibian is a nice base for server-like stuff
Samuel Clark
It's also amazingly slow. I hope you like your 6MB/s transfer speeds compared to like 100MB/s if you plug it in directly.
Sebastian Parker
you'd have to go an extra mile to ssh in to the pi from outside your network, no?
Brayden Nguyen
Some people just set up DMZ... Yeah, really.
Levi Robinson
Mine hits 11MB/s on a good day, hovers around 10,5 mostly. Networkcontroller is the bottleneck but its good enough for my files.
Imagine setting up the raspi in an office or workspace. The moment it your co-worker or peer boots it up for the first time you ssh into it and fuck it up. The poor guy only wanted to do some Python learing, never even heard of ssh
Ryder White
It is a great idea but I will suggest you to spend a few bucks more. I bought an Odroid XU4 and I couldn't be happier. I feel it just fast, I mean, I'm not expert, I just think it could do everything even heavy tasks. Runniing some custom Debian from their own forum.
Easton Jones
Pis are great to tinker and learn new shit on, but when your needs exceed it, you can just spin up an actual server. I've still got an old Pi 2 running a PBX system and other PHP5.6 shit apart from my main server (with PHP7).
Hunter Jenkins
because little kids get this and they all are too retarded to change the standard password
Jack Hernandez
I have one set up as a seedbox and media server. It works fine for streaming media, but dragging and dropping files is a nightmare thanks to USB 2.0 and the 100MB/s port.
Josiah Davis
yes
Nathan Powell
Mb, not MB.
Ethan Roberts
I hear it is a really bad idea to run a raspberry pi server for some reason that I forget. Something about the raspbians packages being old or being easy to hack for some reason. I don't remember but just mentioning this incase any Sup Forumsuys are gonna use this for public facing things.