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Does it still ship with minecraft installed? We had 2 of em full of bloat and gui tools, don't know exactly why

Not anymore, no. We use the "Raspbian with desktop" image as a basis and delete most of the games to make the image fit on the 4 GByte eMMC variants of our products (with about 1 GByte to spare).

Customers who don't need a GUI may create a custom Revolution Pi image based on "Raspbian Lite" using our imagebakery scripts: https://github.com/RevolutionPi/imagebakery

Why desktop as opposed to a server (headless) image?

I would suspect it would be more common to connect via ethernet from a PC or laptop, vs local console. Especially for field servicing, carrying a laptop is simpler.

In the case HMI is needed, installing the desktop is just some additional packages.

This raises another question: what repository are you using? How are (security) updates handled, if at all?

A lot of our customers have a background in automation and are used to Windows on their desktop PC, with little prior Linux experience. Shipping a desktop by default is intended to make their life easier.

Since the image is based on Raspbian, updates are installed via apt-get as usual. There are some deb packages of our own pre-installed. Updates for those are made available via our apt repository at packages.revolutionpi.de.

Thats just the standard noobs card you get with a raspberry, but most shops I know allow you to choose your sd card image (or none at all)

Pretty sure it didn't had an accessible SD card "Revolution Pi has a specially adapted Raspbian operating system, which is equipped with a real-time patch. The use of Raspbian ensures that most of the applications developed for the Raspberry Pi can also be used on the Revolution Pi."

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module built into the Revolution Pi products has an eMMC of 4, 8, 16 or 32 GByte. Each product has a micro USB receptacle via which it can be flashed or mounted from an attached computer. Users are free to use whatever image they want.

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