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News - Raspberry Pi is served to schoolchildren
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First batch of deliveries start to arrive.
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Emissions testing? Really? :lol:
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I am looking forward to these getting out in the loose and people doing some clever stuff with them
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me too.... I'm hoping for things we're.. not expecting.
I love this.. and I pray it wins hearts fast
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Sorry no time for this. Too busy teaching the powepointz
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I'll be getting one of these with a case at some point so I can sort out a small home entertainment device to play dvds and on demand entertainment via the internet.
With free Khan Academy Computer Science lessons I think this could be brilliant for kids interested in coding/software development.
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Originally Posted by
ExHail
I'll be getting one of these with a case at some point so I can sort out a small home entertainment device to play dvds and on demand entertainment via the internet.
I didn't realise these litte devices were powerful enough for that. Very interesting...
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I think most people want them for a cheapo media centre. I also do, but I want another to mess around with.
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Originally Posted by
aidanjt
Emissions testing? Really? :lol:
Yes, as in electromagnetic, not CO2!
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I don't know why everyone raves about Khan Academy, it's just not that good for sciences. There's a lot of content there, but most of it is a very low level and when you look at the topics, it doesn't really go into that much detail. It's not bad for finance stuff though, lots of good explanations of the weird things people trade.
If you actually want to learn about programming, I'd suggest Stanford Edu - take the Programming Methodologies course: http://see.stanford.edu/see/coursein...a-866adcae1111.
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very looking forward to receiving mine in the post :-)
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i think it needs to be in a car..... dunno what it's gonna do in a car... but it deserves to be in a car.
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I shall be nipping round to the local RS Trade Centre as soon as they get them!
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Got mine ordered, with a case from modmypi, already got a super speedy 8GB SanDisk SD card for it too (one of their 30MB/s Ultra things) which should be enough to keep up with that ARM CPU.
No idea what to do with it yet though, I already have a Media Server/PC in the living room with all my TV cards etc in and a small ITX machine in the bedroom, we watch a lot of iPlayer and downloaded content so a Windows Media Centre does it all so easily, Live TV pause, DVD, Blu-Ray Web, Catch up etc. And it works, not gonna beat that with a Pi... except on power draw, but my current stuff is already pretty low power.
I suppose the slightly shonky PogoPlug with Linux on could do with an update, never really worked that well... I use that for small server duties that require little in the way of processing power... but it seems like the Pi could do more... hmmmm I suppose it could do things the Pogo never could...
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Originally Posted by Mark Tyson
To help you get started the RasPi homepage has links to operating-system images to install on your SD card, you can choose between Debian Squeeze, Arch Linux and Fedora 14 Remix right now.
I assume those three Linux operating system are incredibly efficient to be able to run on hardware of that kind. Am I correct in thinking so? I have only played around with Ubuntu and Mint but if these run like magic, then I am definitely interested next time I dabble with Linux.
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Originally Posted by
Zeven
I assume those three Linux operating system are incredibly efficient to be able to run on hardware of that kind. Am I correct in thinking so? I have only played around with Ubuntu and Mint but if these run like magic, then I am definitely interested next time I dabble with Linux.
It's probably a stripped down Fedora so it should work fairly fluidly. Gentoo would also work but it'd be a lot more effort, but not much more than Arch.
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Originally Posted by
aidanjt
It's probably a stripped down Fedora so it should work fairly fluidly. Gentoo would also work but it'd be a lot more effort, but not much more than Arch.
Guess I will be sticking with Ubuntu and Mint for the foreseeable future. I am too much of a wannabe when it comes to being technologically proficient.
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Zeven
Guess I will be sticking with Ubuntu and Mint for the foreseeable future. I am too much of a wannabe when it comes to being technologically proficient.
I believe there's ARM/OMAP images for Ubuntu as well.
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Originally Posted by
aidanjt
I believe there's ARM/OMAP images for Ubuntu as well.
Not the slightest clue as to what OMAP is but I assume that means that Raspberry Pi can run Ubuntu and by extension Mint too, right?
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Zeven
Not the slightest clue as to what OMAP is but I assume that means that Raspberry Pi can run Ubuntu and by extension Mint too, right?
Yeah. That's the CPU architecture Raspberry Pi uses.
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http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/805
I'll be using the Fedora remix as detailed there, I'm used to CentOS and RHEL, Fedora is normally a bit to unstable (experimental/bleeding edge) for my work needs but it'll be great for the Pi.
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Re: News - Raspberry Pi is served to schoolchildren
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Originally Posted by
Zeven
I assume those three Linux operating system are incredibly efficient to be able to run on hardware of that kind. Am I correct in thinking so? I have only played around with Ubuntu and Mint but if these run like magic, then I am definitely interested next time I dabble with Linux.
You make it sound like its a slow CPU, it's not so bad
- the Pi uses ARM11, the same chip used in the iphone 3G, clocked at nearly twice the speed (412/700Mhz).
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mikerr
You make it sound like its a slow CPU, it's not so bad
- the Pi uses ARM11, the same chip used in the iphone 3G, clocked at nearly twice the speed (412/700Mhz).
Like I see, I am not as technologically proficient as I would like to be, and Raspberry Pi running the same CPU as a mere phone sounds like the Devil's work to me.
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Does anyone have one yet? According to the first email mine should have been delivered yesterday; the second email predicts 14th May but I thought they said the second load of emails were to be ignored?
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