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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by codecamper on Thursday November 26, 2015 @05:06AM (#10632254)
I wanted to set up the pi as a wifi repeater. This sort of thing required lots of reboots. Took way too long to setup.

I think the way it should work is they need an emulator that runs on a desktop machine. Just like iOS & Android development. You get your setup working on the desktop & then deploy to device.

I guess the main problem with this is that often you want to try hardware that only works on the pi. Not sure what the solution is there.

Maybe soon these $5 computers will be screaming fast with fast SSD as well, will reboot in a few seconds, and so no problems.

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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer by lngtmelistener on Friday November 27, 2015 @04:03AM (#10636526)
If you do want to play with it as a wifi repeater, perhaps another OS is a good idea? Something like openwrt https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspber... should be quick to write to the SD-card and quick to boot. Raspbian may be a bit heavy.
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