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Neil Gall on March 09, 2019

I grow tomatoes in my greenhouse in the summer. I have an irrigation timer for the tomatoes but setting the right amount of water is a bit of a gue...
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Raheem

I really enjoyed this article. Raspberry Pi, Rust and tomatoes. A good combination!

I have a question though. You switched your Raspberry Pi's OS from Debian to Arch since there was some issues, but would it have been possible to do something to fix those issues and compile for Debian on Arch? It should be, right?

Looking forward to reading more about your project.

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jeikabu

Nice! Looking forward to reading about your progress.

I've got a Pi B running Raspbian and another with Win10 "IoT Core". I installed Rust/.Net Core and got some of my projects building and running, but haven't done much other than that. I'm putting the finishing touches on a post, but, honestly, it's pretty bland.

What made you choose Arch Linux? I only went with "Raspbian"/Debian because... I didn't really have an opinion.

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Neil Gall

I run Arch on my laptop and it was just a matter of keeping things consistent. There are few things as demotivating as arbitrary issues with clashing library versions!

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jeikabu

Ah, indeed. That makes perfect sense.