Raspberry Pi, Raspbian and Gambas
Posted: Wednesday 9th October 2019 11:44am
Hi all,
Have been working with Banana Pi's for quite a while now with an old Lubuntu image (14.04) running a Gambas 3.6.2 application that provides a pricelist for the company I work for. I first started out with Raspberry Pi's (first model) but they simply couldn't handle the graphical load in those days, that's why I ended up with the Banana Pi in those days.
I have been looking to newer Banana Pi's but found out that image support for some newer versions isn't all that great and it's really time for a newer image. Also most is done by Chinese people and their English documentation is really bad if there is any at all.
I also noticed that Raspberry has come a long way since and they now have a new Raspberry Pi 4 with up to 4 GB ram. So that got me interested again in Raspberry. I figure these newer Raspberries might be up for the job I need them to do.
My questions are:
1. How well is Gambas supported under Raspbian (and I'm looking at the latest Raspbian version based on Debian 10)?
2. Will it install Gambas from the Debian 10 repositories?
3. Will it (on the newer Raspberry Pi 4) be able to handle a some what heavier grapical load, as the header part of the pricelist are animated GIFs (1920 x 225 pixels) and those couldn't be handled by the first Raspberries?
Hope anyone can provide me some more insight.
gbWilly
Have been working with Banana Pi's for quite a while now with an old Lubuntu image (14.04) running a Gambas 3.6.2 application that provides a pricelist for the company I work for. I first started out with Raspberry Pi's (first model) but they simply couldn't handle the graphical load in those days, that's why I ended up with the Banana Pi in those days.
I have been looking to newer Banana Pi's but found out that image support for some newer versions isn't all that great and it's really time for a newer image. Also most is done by Chinese people and their English documentation is really bad if there is any at all.
I also noticed that Raspberry has come a long way since and they now have a new Raspberry Pi 4 with up to 4 GB ram. So that got me interested again in Raspberry. I figure these newer Raspberries might be up for the job I need them to do.
My questions are:
1. How well is Gambas supported under Raspbian (and I'm looking at the latest Raspbian version based on Debian 10)?
2. Will it install Gambas from the Debian 10 repositories?
3. Will it (on the newer Raspberry Pi 4) be able to handle a some what heavier grapical load, as the header part of the pricelist are animated GIFs (1920 x 225 pixels) and those couldn't be handled by the first Raspberries?
Hope anyone can provide me some more insight.
gbWilly