Comments on: Raspberry Pi $25 USD computer coming in January

By: Gezzerx

Gezzerx — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:05:00 +0000

FYI Puppy Linux distribution :

What’s different here is
that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy
boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep
pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all
applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input
instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any
USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy
disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted
CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive
required at all

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:16:00 +0000

Want…..

By: Dave Painter

Dave Painter — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:05:00 +0000

It’s said to be designed to cluster – they call such a configuration a Raspberry Pi ‘bramble’ :-)

By: Salmander

Salmander — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:04:00 +0000

can it be used as a HTPC with XBMC i wonder….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:28:00 +0000

Can anyone answer this question for me, If they have Ethernet, is it possible to cluster these? Thanks!

By: Robert Weir

Robert Weir — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:38:00 +0000

very cool. may just give this a try. very cheap which just appeals to my frugal side. :)

By: jason404

jason404 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:12:00 +0000

Now that this project has been finished, I really hope David Braben gets to work on Elite IV. I have been patiently waiting for decades!

By: MichaelMalus

MichaelMalus — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:02:00 +0000

It’s running a couple of Linux distros already. I’m not certain how much software will work without a recompile, but they’ve shown it running Quake 3 in full HD.

By: Aa

Aa — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:00 +0000

”I should point out that we are not shipping with the GPIO pins connected; those who want to use them have asked us not to because they want the flexibility to mount them to project from the front or the back, and some want pins with a 90º bend for their own projects. If you’re planning on using the GPIO, you’re already a hardware hacker with a good idea of how to mount them, so we’re not concerned about this.”

By: Aa

Aa — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:55:00 +0000

it can run Fedora and such

By: Douglas

Douglas — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:41:00 +0000

So is it going to have software of its own? Or is this strictly for people who want to play with the programming to get it to do specific functions?

By: John Bottomley

John Bottomley — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:42:00 +0000

I dont know anything about programming, this device may get me started.

By: Max Hatfull

Max Hatfull — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:51:00 +0000

can the raspberry pi set pins as outputs and inputs though?

By: Zutronic

Zutronic — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:33:00 +0000

This little thing is neat for the price and what it can do.

By: Epicanis

Epicanis — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:35:00 +0000

a more functional, price-comparable (or better) substitute for Arduino™, perhaps?

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:20:00 +0000

bad wording

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:23:00 +0000

correction: the $25version has 128MB RAM, the $35 has 256MB.