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Add to SafariWhen comparing Banana Pi vs BeagleBone Green Wireless, the Slant community recommends Banana Pi for most people. In the question“What are the best single-board computers?” Banana Pi is ranked 48th while BeagleBone Green Wireless is ranked 65th. The most important reason people chose Banana Pi is:
Banana Pi officially supports Fedora, Arch, Lubuntu and openSUSE. It also can be used with Raspbian (Debian derivative) or Android.
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Pros
Pro Official support for multiple Desktop-version Linux distros
Banana Pi officially supports Fedora, Arch, Lubuntu and openSUSE. It also can be used with Raspbian (Debian derivative) or Android.
Pro Additional keys for booting or shutting down
Pro SATA port
Pro Excellent compatibility with Raspberry Pi software
Other than having a port of Raspbian (the official OS for Raspberry Pi) available for use with full capabilities, Banana Pi can also use many applications that were originally written for Raspberry. One of these is WiringPi, a C/C++ library which gives easy access to Raspberry's I/O with a strong Arduino flavor. But that is just one example of the many open source projects being ported to Banana Pi.
Pro Onboard Wi-Fi
Most models have an onboard Wi-Fi.
Pro Open source hardware
Schematic and board layout available at Seeed Studio's GitHub https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/beaglebone-getting-started/tree/BBGW/Docs/Hardware
Pro BeagleBone Black compatible
Compatible with BeagleBone Black software (with the exception of HDMI and Ethernet).
Pro WiFi and BlueTooth included
WiFi (2.4GHz b/g/n) and BlueTooth (classic and BLE) are both included.
Pro Includes 4 USB 2.0 host ports
Cons
Con Bad software support
Con No off-the-shelf camera modules
The A20 chip that the Banana Pi uses lacks a true Camera Serial Interface implementation, instead it uses a parallel camera interface. The problem with this is that there are no off-the-shelf camera modules that support this and can connect to the Banana Pi, but it should be mentioned that the makers of Banana Pi have promised to create a camera module that is supported by it.
Con Does not fit most Raspberry Pi cases, even though it's where it clearly has gotten the inspiration from
The Banana Pi is pretty noticeable a Rapberry Pi lookalike and the name does not hide this information either. Unfortunately it's a bit larger than the Raspberry Pi, making it very hard to fit into most Raspberry Pi cases.
Con No HDMI port
HDMI port is only available via an addon cape.
