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Re: [LUG] Fwd: 🎉 Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB) PRICE CUT! Plus a FREE gift!

 

On this date - Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 03:27:21PM +0000, mr meowski wrote:
> On 27/02/2020 08:47, Giles Coochey wrote:
> > 
> > On 27/02/2020 08:39, Paul Sutton wrote:
> >> Hi All
> >>
> >> Anyone looking at getting the Raspberry Pi 4, the price of the 2GB model
> >> has dropped to $35  so the same price as the 1GB model.
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> > There sometimes is a big announcement on Pi day (14th March - 3.14), so 
> > while it's great that 2GB one has had its price dropped, might want to 
> > wait a couple of weeks to see if there is anything new on the horizon.
> > 
> > Having said that I have a Pi4 4GB and its great, ordered it the day it 
> > was launched, I run it with a USB3 SSD and heatsink & fans, and it runs 
> > much faster than previous Pis.
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone tried using one of these as a full on router/NAT/gateway type box 
> yet? The 4Gb model particularly. I'm very interested in using these as 
> drop-in pfsense/opnsense type network appliances with a couple of USB > 
> gigabit ethernet adaptors especially now the architectural weakness of 
> the older models with the shared bus has been sorted out.

Last time I heard, recently, was that opnsense/pfsense do not support Raspberry
Pi(s0; apparently its a limitation of BSD... or something.. I currently run my
pfSENSE instead in a VM.

> 
> I don't have good history with RPis for doing "proper" work 
> unfortunately, much as I love them. Stability sucks :[
> 
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