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Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038 (distrowatch.com)

submitted 9 months ago by BlanK0@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's a sheevaplug?

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is a sheevaplug apparently.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was fairly certain I was going to see an IoT buttplug there...

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The thought crossed my mind to do that the actual device seemed more interesting.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 2 points 9 months ago

The search term is censored by DuckDuckGo in Korea. Even robots apparently think it's going to be an IoT buttplug.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

As one of the first such computers on the market, the device has a 1.2 GHz Marvell Kirkwood 6281 ARM-compatible CPU, a.k.a. Feroceon.

Man this Pokémon thing is crazy, how many Eevolutions are there?!

[–] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Dude that's badass haha

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@JustUseMint@lemmy.world you should read this: https://lemmy.world/comment/7295421

[–] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing, there fucking awesome. Even more turned off from pi than I was before haha

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well then you may also like this comment here about the RPi's lack of hardware innovation and features. And this one about how it is just a product that stays in between two very different markets and doesn't really serve anyone.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The SheevaPlug was the OG Raspberry Pi released years before the Raspberry Pi that nobody cared about because there wasn't a media hype around it.

Now the interesting part is: it included an ARM CPU @ 1.2 GHz and it was released in 2009 with dedicated Gigabit ethernet plus another isolated USB chip. Note that the Raspberry Pi was released years later, in 2012, with a 100M ethernet + USB shared chip that was total garbage. They kept selling that garbage until 2019 with the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 that finally came with Gigabit.

Another interesting fact about the SheevaPlug is that there was a variant with an eSATA port once again totally obliterating the Raspberry Pi 4 and making it the perfect low power system for a NAS at the time.