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- Lakesuperior on a Raspberry Pi
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- .. figure:: assets/fedora_rpi.jpg
- :alt: Raspberry Pi on pinboard. Fedora inside.
- Look, a Fedora implementation!
- **Experiment in Progress**
- Lakesuperior has been successfully installed and ran on a Raspberry Pi 3 board.
- The software was compiled on Alpine Linux using `musl <http://musl-libc.org>`__
- C libraries. (it also run fine with musl on more conventional hardware, but
- performance benchmarks vis-a-vis libc have not been performed yet.)
- Performance is obviously much lower than even a consumer-grade laptop, however
- the low cost of single-board computers may open up Lakesuperior to new
- applications that may require to connect many small LDP micro-repositories.
- If this experiment proves worthwhile, a disk image contianing the full system
- can be made available. The image would be flashed to a microSD card and
- inserted into a Raspberry Pi for a ready-to-use system.
- Some tweaks to the software could be made to better adapt it to small
- repositories. For example, adding a cpmpile-time option to force the use of
- fixed 32-bit keys on an ARM64 processor rather than the current 64-bit keys (a
- 32-bit system would use 32-bit keys natively), it would be possible for
- Lakesuperior to handle half-sized indices and still being capable of holding,
- in theory, millions of triples.
- Cell phones next?
- More to come on the topic.
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