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Re:Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Note... by loser777 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:54AM (#16864728)
Cheap for good reason; an A53 quad core is Raspberry Pi 3 class. Hope every package you're gonna need is precompiled for arm64 because building anything nontrivial is not going to be fun.
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Re:Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Note... by geofft on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:12AM (#16864805)
Can you not cross-compile from a cloud instance? It seems like compiling software would be a perfect fit for per-minute or per-second VMs.
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Re:Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Note... by RandomCSGeek on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:15AM (#16865072)
I used a aws spot instance to compile GCC for Alpine Linux. It's a decent idea I think, especially if you already know what you need to do.

I had to do a lot of trial and error stuff to get it right, but anyway, I was having that spot instance sitting there almost idle, while using up the credits I got for free, so I had no issues with it.

The C5 instances are great for this kind of stuff.

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