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No idea. Was just trying to spread the news as it's been leaked and the pi foundation mafiosos are trying to squash the leak.

Guess pi is better supported than orange pi though and better software support

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Not really, you can run unmodified Debian on either of those boards, same for Arch & most other distros. The chip in the Zero will never be able to do that since its ARMv6, plus your paying a premium for it.

My last experience with a Raspi 3 and all the broken packages in Raspbian just killed the idea of buying anything requiring I use closed, broken stuff, as its a nightmare to work with.

Good point! Are they as fast? And reliable from hardware point of view?

Much faster than a Raspberry Pi 3, I can tell the difference between the two running the same software attached to a large touchscreen. I've got a few dozen OrangePi PC boards going on over a year of being deployed, no issues with any of them yet.

Cool. Got a link to some good vendors?

Yeah, I'd just buy it from Xunlong off Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1553371

The OrangePi PC Plus is pretty good with the onboard eMMC and Wifi, its worth the extra $7.

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