Raspberry Pi 2

[Adrian Hudson]

It runs lovely on the new RPI. Low, lowww CPU.

[steve]

That's good to hear. My Pi2 is still on its way. Does it use more than one core?

[Adrian Hudson]

Does it use more than one core?

Err, difficult to tell (I'm no Linux expert). HTOP shows several CumulusMX processes (threads?) all apparently using less than 0.0% cpu
Sorry can't be more helpful - unless someone tells me how to tell!

[marfanuk]

mines sitting here ready to be loaded up. Has anybody tried Ubuntu core on this?

[steve]

Err, difficult to tell (I'm no Linux expert). HTOP shows several CumulusMX processes (threads?) all apparently using less than 0.0% cpu
Sorry can't be more helpful - unless someone tells me how to tell!

I understand - I wouldn't know how to do it myself.

[marfanuk]

Err, difficult to tell (I'm no Linux expert). HTOP shows several CumulusMX processes (threads?) all apparently using less than 0.0% cpu
Sorry can't be more helpful - unless someone tells me how to tell!

I understand - I wouldn't know how to do it myself.

This works in linux mint...

in a terminal install - sudo apt-get install sysstat
then - mpstat -P ALL 1

[WoodburyMan]

Lucky. Most US Resellers do not have it yet. I got my B+ from adafruit here in the US. The sad thing is I *just* bought it not even 3 weeks ago. Outdated so quick.

[malkie]

The sad thing is I *just* bought it not even 3 weeks ago. Outdated so quick.

I'm in the same boat, had mine less than two weeks! At least it wasn't such a large expense! I wondered why my B+ was cheap!

I expect it will have to go on eBay, 1 careful owner, very low mileage.......

Adrian, did you do a fresh install on the Pi 2, or just swap the micro SD card over?

[water01]

There is fresh build of Raspbian, Noobs and various other flavours including a Ubuntu core in order to take advantage of the 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU.

Raspbian is now a 967MB download for the image, so if you are on a slow broadband connection like me you had better get started!!

[marfanuk]

Im running the new version 2 as from today and the new Pi is a massive jump in speed compared the the original model b. Its a real pleasure to use now.

[Adrian Hudson]

Adrian, did you do a fresh install on the Pi 2, or just swap the micro SD card over?

Sorry for the delay. Because it was a new SD card, I rebuilt it. I understand you can just swap - if you had a micro SD in an adapter in the old Pi of course.

[jpsc]

You can just update in place on the micro SD (assuming you have an A+ or B+) before you swap over, the latest will run on both. There is a good rundown here http://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi- ... berry-pi-2

[steve]

Mine came yesterday, and I had made sure my card was up to date so I could just swap. It came as a bit of a surprise to find the micro SD slot! I just happened to have a micro SD card anyway, so I cloned the old card - works fine.

[mcrossley]

So, is the Pi-2 going to be up to running a self hosting web site and MySQL? Or is the BeagleBone Black still going to be favourite?

[steve]

I would think the Pi 2 and the BB are roughly similar in performance. Unfortunately the micro SD card that I happened to have was my BB card, so I can't do any comparisons at the moment. I hadn't got around to trying MX on the BB.

Edit: Actually, I see that my BB has a card in it, so I will be able to try MX on it.