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A. Dumas  wrote:
>On 21/02/2018 05:03, Pete wrote:
>> If it means updating Raspbian itself, I'm not particularly interested.
>> My Pi runs 24/7 without hiccups doing a few useful things for me
>> (like feeding Radio Caroline to my audio system, and providing a
>> 'reminder' app that's accessible from any of my machines and OSs),
>> so I don't want to 'fix' anything.
>
>Beauty is you can buy a new SD card (min. 8 GB) for peanuts and swap
>them to try out the newest Raspbian distribution. Or even buy a new Pi,
>perhaps a cheap Pi Zero to use as the radio and the one you have (Pi3?)
>as your dev test bed. If you don't already have a Pi3, then definitely
>worth it to buy one and use that for development. Massive speed
>difference. Just wait a week or so until the RPi foundation has
>celebrated their birthday, on the off-chance they will introduce new
>hardware which they tend to do around this time. I think a Pi4 is
>another year away, though.

Swapping the SD removes the Pi's current uses, so that's what I don't
want to do!

However a Pi 3 is definitely in my plans.  That I haven't bought one
yet is just inertia I'm afraid. (:-/)

 -- Pete --

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