05-24-2018, 05:27 AM
(05-23-2018, 10:21 PM)pushpendrak Wrote: I purchased 2 Pine64 boards thru crowdfunding hoping it will be a great board and good alternative to Raspberry, but still i am struggling to get a fully functional OS for these boards and mostly other people also stopped developing and supporting these boards. from past 3 years these boards are lying and eating dust. I tried stable release of Android, Ubuntu etc. but non of them are useful neither for work nor at entertainment.
Pine64 has not fulfilled what it promised while launch.
I'll agree insofar as whoever was in charge of the marketing campaign needed a sharp smack to the face repeatedly. Other than that, the times I've used mine on Android (usually the 6.x or 7.0x series) it has been perfectly fine for doing media streaming and even light web browsing and watching youtube, etc. And on the linux side, I've been running one pine64 for the last few months as a lightweight git repo host, file sharing/cifs, downloading of large files overnight, etc. I have another one that has a high-gain wifi antenna and battery backup that I intend to use as the master for a clusterboard of 7 sopine modules. So it really comes down to what you want the board to do, once you realise it's true capabilities, as opposed to the hyped marketing campaign.
