I have deployed several Pis, including a significant use as a control agent for our contest station's 2m EME array. It controls several Arduinos that, in turn, control switching, etc.
However, there is a reasonably well-known glitch with the Pi whereby, once in a while, some write error or other kills the SD card. It is supposedly fixed in later versions of the software and does seem to be happening less often, but it is still happening to me maybe once or twice a year.
I can "get out of it" because I have decent backup and recovery practices, but it is getting old.
I see various Beagle Bone boards out there at similar prices and wonder if I should just switch to it, at least for the "mission critical" parts of my Pi usage.
There is, of course, a considerable and critical mass surrounding the Pi. It appears better supported, more "oh, here's something similar to what I want to do" and so on. But, it's not like nobody uses the BB boards.
Has anyone deployed Beagle Bones around the ham shack? How successful? Any compare-and-contrast with the Pi? Are there simply different problems?