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Roman Mamedov:
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Lance Hathaway qhltx@yahoo.com wrote:
Speaking only for myself (in turn), this is something I would desperately like to see. I've been planning on deploying several Raspberry Pis for Tor, but seeing all the reports on storms and routers crashing and etc. has demonstrated that it's just not ready for prime time yet--unless you go into all the debugging and manual tweaking required.
Get an Allwinner A20-based Cubieboard or Marsboard instead. While somewhat more expensive, those sport twice more of three to six _times_ faster RAM, dual CPU cores with each of those cores by itself being more than twice faster than the RPi core. And this being ARMv7, you can use the standard Debian or Ubuntu with their repos directly (although still need a non-official installer/image).
http://cubieboard.org/ http://www.hotmcu.com/marsboard-a20-dev-board-p-60.html
I'm actually experimenting with an A20 Cubieboard for running more heavyweight anti-censorship software (i.e. Freenet and I2P).
While the specs blow the doors off the Pi, and the Cubie would likely run Tor without complaint, you will find a couple things about the Cubieboard 2:
* Debian wheezy ('stable') is not stable on it. It's got issues. * I, personally, know the Pi is capable of being a useful relay up to maybe 5Mbps, it just needs tuning - and the cheaper "Torbian"[1] boxes are, the more homes they'll make it into.
[1] http://www.torbian.org/ (currently just redirects to a github for the purpose of beginning to organize/build a number of bulletproof Pi-based tor relay stuff)
Best, - -Gordon M.