| [[I don't have a static IP address. Can I still install this system?]] |
| [[What are the best microSD cards to use?]] |
| [[On a single board computer Can I boot from an external SSD or hard drive?]] |
| [[On a single board computer can I boot from an external SSD or hard drive?]] |
| [[Why Freedombone and not FreedomBox?]] |
| [[Why not support building images for Raspberry Pi?]] |
| [[Why use Tor? I've heard it's used by bad people]] |
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The lack of a static IP address can be worked around by using a dynamic DNS service. Freedombone uses [[https://troglobit.com/inadyn.html][inadyn]] , which supports a variety of dynamic DNS providers.
* What are the best microSD cards to use?
There can be big differences in the performance of microSD cards, and the cheaper ones are almost invariably terrible and/or unusable. Sandisk and Samsung currently appear to be the better brands. You can find some performance benchmarks [[http://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/microsd-cards][here]]. However, benchmarks like this only give a very rough idea of performance and they can vary significantly between individual cards even within the same brand.
* On a single board computer Can I boot from an external SSD or hard drive?
* On a single board computer can I boot from an external SSD or hard drive?
Some single board computers, such as Cubieboards or OLinuxino, have a SATA socket on them which enables an external drive to be connected. Typically this is intended for extra file storage, but it is also possible to run the operating system from an external drive. This can have the advantage of significantly increasing the read/write performance and your apps will appear to run more quickly.
Typically a microSD read speed is 10-30MB/s. And SSD or hard drive can be 100MB/s or more, so that's a big potential gain.
