Since the x86 and the amd64 CPUs from Intel and AMD accept encrypted microcode updates, which basically disallows to elimate the risk (i.e. via code auditing) that some malware is implanted in the CPU (i.e. via a software update) I have some trust issues with those CPUs.
The vulnerability and ris...
@RoryAlsop I think its time we find / write a canonical q flor dupeclosing all the "what is this encryption / please decrypt / what kind of hash / etc".
actually we could have a pretty good generic question to cover that - "how can one figure out the algorithms and such"
@RоryMcCune according to the announce (debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3148) it's because google moved their build platform and now it won't build on Debian's standard build platform; hence there's no chance to backport security fixes.
The recommendation is migrate to iceweasel or Debian 8... Debian 8, that super-released distro. It's been so released it's quite shocking.
@TerryChia heh, you could do a surprising amount with an rPi before... That said, I've worked with other SoC and PIC microcontrollers before, so 2GB is simply massive to me...
@Tinned_Tuna (Imo), it's not small enough to compete with Arduinos or microcontrollers and not powerful enough to run useful stuff with a Linux distro on it.
Honestly for people like us the other ARM boards are a better at price/performance.
What kind of "useful" stuff are you after? We use them all around the department for powering wall-board type arrangements. Definitely useful and a hell of a lot cheaper than the alternatives.
@TerryChia yes, the hardware is cheaper, but when you want to quickly provision ~20 of them and just have them run chromium in kiosk mode, raspbian is very useful
the savings in person-time vastly outweigh the savings in hardware costs when you're doing stuff like that
@TerryChia surely @johnsmith would work better for that, or even better some obscure finnish name with non-ASCII characters so all their regex can't find him
