11-29-2016, 05:56 PM
(11-29-2016, 12:46 PM)GSam Wrote: I have another thought. My real goal is to use the Pine in my electronics lab as a bench mounted PC so I can look up reference material stored on my network, access YouTube videos, and use an Internet Explorer to access the online resources I need. I have a 15.6 laptop LED panel. I want to mount both on an articulating arm. My thought was the Pine was perfect for this application because it's compact. I hoped to use WinIoT because I thought the networking and shared folder requirements would be easier to manage in a Windows environment. I may be wrong. Can you tell me which image would be the most "stable", and fast to use that allows me: Internet access with a YouTube and Flash compatible browser, access to shared network resources with secure access (user and password), and open and view Excel, Word, and PDF documents.
For Excel, PDF, Word viewing, access to network resources and minimal/light web browsing... I would go with a linux desktop image... the ubuntu mate one is quite good, and the debian one just needs a few tweaks.
But, for youtube (not so sure about flash?) and better internet browsing + all the rest, you're probably better off with an Android image. Trying the Android 6 image maintined by ayufan... there seem to be some good reports on that one. There are free apps that you can add on like ghost commander for the file & network browsing (IIRC ES File Explorer is another), and for viewing/editing word / excel / PDF, etc. I had the same idea, and have a 14" LCD on the corner of my work bench with a Raspberry Pi on the back, I just never got around to installing a desktop environment so I could use a nice GUI!
