@Zanna Which Raspberry Pi is it?

I ask this out of curiosity, not out of any detailed knowledge of which models exist and their differences.

It's a Raspberry Pi 3 model B

(my brother gave it to me a while ago as a birthday gift <3)

reads specs

I don't really know anything about the Raspberry Pi but those specifications look good.

also reads, because I'm clueless

Its BCM2837 chip seems to be an ARM Cortex-A53 processor, so that's cool.

I have an old Dell Inspiron laptop with a Core Duo processor (not Core 2 Duo) that I use as a server for Git. I believe that Raspberry Pi board is actually considerably better.

Especially since that laptop has cooling problems and often throttles down well below 1 GHz.

Of course, a direct clock speed comparison doesn't really make sense. But I would be surprised if that Pi did not run better than it.

hahaha :)

@EliahKagan I've long been meaning to learn ARM assembly language.

...which is not relevant to setting up a server or using git.

@Zanna evidence to support your prediction

@Zanna Anyway, I don't know how people usually use a Pi. Does one usually have a read-only root filesystem?

I've run Debian on an emulated ARM system using QEMU, and (at least as I did it) that worked pretty much just like any Debian system, with / read-write. I didn't use a boot loader (and I had no hardware acceleration for the emulator since the host was amd64 so it was very slow) but besides that it felt the same.

@EliahKagan but nonetheless interesting and cool

@EliahKagan I have no idea at all. I have not done anything with it or looked into it

but I've always had faith that an opportunity to learn would arrive. I'm highly tenacious when I have to solve a problem!

@EliahKagan I'll have to have a look at some beginner's guide type stuff

I'm hoping there's lots of that for Pi

I'm sure there is a lot! :)

I even know a ten year old I can probably fruitfully ask

You should probably do that!

:)

I don't think I've actually run Ubuntu on ARM. I think the only physical ARM device I have is my Android phone. But if I can follow in a QEMU machine, I'd be interested to.

awesome!

I might have some time for this tomorrow

Cool.

right now it's late, some skin allergy I have is bothering me, and my a and d keys are pushing me over the eddddddge

I think you totally should use that to host a Git server because it's suitable cool and I believe quite fit for that purpose. However, I don't want to mislead you -- you don't need a separate machine to store and manage your own remote repositories...

but I am sooo grateful that you are encouraging me to do something with my Pi

...which I'll tell you about tomorrow or sometime.

@EliahKagan sure, but it will be really fun to do that ^_^

To clarify, I'm not saying you have to or even should run Ubuntu. I don't know what OS you should use. I don't think most Raspberry Pi users use Ubuntu.

@Zanna I expect the hard part to be setting up the operating system.

I don't expect that to be hard.

Just harder (or anyway more time consuming) than setting it up to use as a Git server.

that will be great fun

Linuxing is the good stuff

So you have already decided to use some operating system that uses the Linux kernel? :)