I really like gekkoscience products, they are very stable and reliable. I like the idea of home mining.
I am dreaming of owning each product made by gekkoscience, my collection is almost complete but I never managed to find a good R808
I had one >1T share with a Gekko Newpac recently, and a 19T share with a R606 not so long ago.
I really like to use these ASICs to solo mine, and would like to own more R909s.
Can the speed of the underlying LINUX DISTRO affect Sidehacks performance?
I ask b/c I developed 2 lightning fast LINUX distros used by medical clients like hospitals which took tasks that ran 2 weeks of data for 1 hospital that required 5 hours to process 26 weeks of data for 2 hospitals in 72 seconds.
It boots off USB and a lot of my students use USB only devices so I wondered if I can steer them towards building machines w/ Sidehacks boards, but instead of sluggish LINUX distros base them on mine.
Any thoughts?
I use both Ubuntu server and Debian with XFCE desktop on the computers runnings gekkoscience ASICs. No difference between the OS, hardware is the exact same in my case.
I think what you are mentionning, regarding to gekkos, is more a question related to your CPU than your OS. IMO Linux will be ok in any case, always better than with Windows for example, more stable, more safe in many aspects.
You can save some (very few) electricity if you run a Ubuntu/Debian server without a monitor via ssh, or at least from TTY. I would not chose MacOS or Windows because of the updates and random reboots.