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Date:      Sun, 22 Jan 2017 11:49:37 -0500
From:      Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
To:        nowhere <florence44638@caliopea.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Durable/serious arm hardware ?
Message-ID:  <BD86598D-4328-49A0-B491-9BC7ED4B58B0@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On Jan 22, 2017, at 5:19 AM, nowhere <florence44638@caliopea.com> wrote:


> Hello
>=20
> I'd like to hear from the most skilled of you, if anybody knows =
serious arm based hardware or share this though : I'm becoming convinced =
that theses hardware (arm based) are just the consumable-smartphone =
fashion counterpart for kids and leisures or tests. Not really final and =
carefully finished products; abble to works for years or a decade; doing =
is job in a office corner, being forgotten  by anyone, like some of my =
older freebsd servers wich are running for a decade now.
>=20
>=20
> Those past years, I've bought 3 arm based devices :
>=20
> 1 raspberry-pi , which was affected by the "micron-ram-chip" bug: =
except with debian, it never booted on freebsd (I even tried netbsd): I =
just trashed it yesterday (bought in 2014 i think).
>=20
> 1 Beagleboneblack : works fine for weeks then freeze suddenly. And =
sometimes did not event reboot (*): had to loop-reset it until boot =
process go to the end. Seem the most "workable" product so far.. (bought =
in 2015)


I am not the most skilled of us, but, FWIW, you can get an "industrial" =
version of the BeagleBone Black.  That might be more rugged for your =
intended deployments.  See, e.g., =
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/ELEMENT14-BBONE-BLACK-IND-4G-/83-170=
07

Cheers,

Paul.=



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