Misleading YouTube video raspi ubuntu

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 13 May 2021 19:10:45 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 13 May 2021 at 17:10, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > And this makes sense in the common X86-ish desktop world. "PC"s are never
> > normally "headless" and most "PC" uses don't need sshd and it would be a
> > possible security hole, if setup wrong...
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > OTOH, the little ARM SBCs (RPis,
> > Beagles, etc.) are almost always "headless", so having sshd there is often
> > essential.
> 
> I have to stop agreeing there, though. I have 3 RPis in use, and only
> 1 is headless, running Ubuntu Server. The other is an Internet radio
> player, with a touchscreen, and the 3rd runs RISC OS.
> 
> Before the RasPi, I think there was a RISC OS port for the
> BeagleBoard, as well. And RasPis were designed for kids and education,
> of course, where interactivity is very important.
> 
> I mean, yes, many might be headless, but I doubt _most_...

Probably *most* RasPis may not be headless (since the RasPis have an available
HDMI port [monitor] and 2-4 USB host ports [keyboard & mouse]), but I expect
most BeagleBoards are headless, and I was including BeagleBoards in my
statement about ARM SBCs. And there are several other "flavors" of ARM-based
SBCs, some in a RasPi formfactor and some in other form factors (some of which
have a 40-pin GPIO header), almost all able to run some flavor of Linux.


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