An occasional series on these pages has been Daily Drivers, in which the author tries out operating systems from the point of view of using them for their everyday Hackaday work.
Today, however, they are looking at a piece of hardware instead: an original Raspberry Pi from 2012 to see how it measures up in 2025 for use in computing projects.
They have a project that needs a Linux machine, so they are dusting off a Model B and going down memory lane to see how it performs.
They conclude that older hardware shouldn’t be disregarded if it’s still useful, such that if your task doesn’t need all that power and you still have an earlier model lying around, it’s still a capable little Linux board and you probably paid quite a lot less for it.
