“Available”
For bots to get the whole stock for corporate needs
None of those are available either because this non-profit is all about serving corporations above everyone else.
Sold out… remarks saying pre-order for next batches to ship in Dec or later. Yay…
We are continuing to increase our production rate, with the aim of fulfilling all backorders, and getting Raspberry Pi in stock at all our Approved Resellers, by the end of the year –
I feel like I’ve heard that last part a few years in a row.
As far as Pi4’s go, you can pretty much get them now without fucking around (albeit only in 2GB and above). I imagine Pi5’s will be difficult for a while. New releases always are.
“Available”
Oh! Oh. Nevermind. Welp. Back to Orange Pi. At least they’re available.
They work pretty well. The upside is they are always available. The downside is less support for software like the pi foundation has invested into. But they do a great job as a Linux board and if you use a well supported distro, you should be fine.
At one point, we had to do a project with 40ish of these things. Worked out well and we couldn’t get a pi, because since 2019 they are basically impossible to order in number.
It’s an Armbian distro. Down side is you can’t install Pi images for specific things, you need to build them manually, but other than that no real issues. Also you can run Android (that was trickier to setup as it needs a windows only tool to flash it to the SD card.
At the beginning, they were really behind raspberry pis, but the newer models are so nice, that I wouldn’t be surprised if they soon start leading on the innovation in the niche.
Software support has been improving too. You can install armbian just fine, and they have been working on their own official distro. Community support is still minimal, but slowly growing.
