Pi or Beagle?

And following up on a thought I had a few weeks ago about a portable LDAP server, my good friend Philipp recommended that I check out Raspberry Pi. I’d somehow mistaken RP for a programming language! And lo and behold a new world suddenly opened up. I’m on day 1, so perhaps I’ll have more ideas after day 6?

And since one path leads onto another, I ended up trying to evaluate other options like RP on the market and here’s what I’m reading now.
http://siecje.blogspot.de/2013/05/beaglebone-black-vs-raspberry-pi-vs.html