Raspberry PI

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Websites kept timing out... Will have to get one from the next batch

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25-35 dollar 700Mhz 256Mb ARM computer the size of a credit card able to be run off 4AA batteries and able to play back 1080P?

I see nothing BUT potential.

I see AROS

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Well, not enough memory (only 512MB).
A slow A8 processor.
Little to recommend it over a cheap tablet.

What else don't you understand?

You are bitching about the Raspberry Pi... But you should consider that you are arguing about an education device built by a small charitable organisation for the purpose of teaching British school children to write computer programs! It's not mean for anything else

The fact that there is pent up demand for a £25 computer you can plug into your TV is just a bonus

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Lol! That will teach me to jump into a thread

But my point sill stands... Now just directed to everyone in general.

I guess we, as Amiga users always knew there was a market for a £25 computer you can plug into your TV... That's not hype, that just clear sense

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The Raspbery Pi is too popular... It won't be properly available until the end of the year for sure

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I guess you can customize/strip Linux to "run" it on very slimmed down environments, it's only a matter of lowering your standards according to what's realistic given the conditions. Problems *will* arise however, if you want something close to what could be called a full, usable desktop environment, there is no magic way of circumventing missing HW resources. A special, custom build will probably be required anyway, since most major desktop distros doesn't support ARMv6 anymore (according to the Raspberry PI wikipedia page).



Seeing that the Raspberry PI lacks real storage (no real SSD on board), I guess any memory swapping (and all other "disk" operations) will have to use a slow (in comparison) SD-card...?

Or a USB HD/SSD

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Then the storage alone will probably have surpassed the entire Efika MX system in price...

Lol... No more than putting the same thing on an   moot point anyway, as I want to run AROS on my Raspberry Pi.

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Since it runs even on M68k, I think that depends a lot on how you set it up.... The first tip regarding AROS performance on slower hardware is to turn off Decoration (you get the 3.x look), as enabling decoration makes it dramatically slower.

The first thing I do after installing AROS is kill off decoration! If I want fancy window boarders I'll use MacOSX or WinXP in fisherprice mode

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So you could say, the Raspberry Pi has 256meg Chip Ram!!! How awesome is that

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http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781

Ah well, sh1t happens

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Mine got kind of shuffled aside as I got my PDP-11 pretty much right afterward...been meaning to get back to it. I still need to try Raspbian and see if that's better performing than the unoptimized Linux builds, and I have wanted to give RiscOS a shot, too...

The latest firmware automatically over clocks (and safely overvolts) the core  during times of peak demand... So the machine is very usable now, also helped is that the official Linux distro is Raspbian based, it all adds up to a very functional device.

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I've just ordered a 512Mb version, I want to use my old 256mb one as a file server.

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Is still available or need to wait another batch?

They are under continuous production now. RS are manufacturing in China, Farnell/Element14 are manufacturing in the UK, the lead time is about 3 weeks at the moment. But some people on the Pi forums are claiming that they are only waiting a week!

The only unit currently in production is the 512Mb model B (revision 2, which has an improved board layout, including a power back feed via a powered USB hub!).

I'm currently using mine to learn OpenVG (like OpenGL but for 2D graphics).

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@Bbond

You seem to have some odd USB issues there... Issues similar to what I had with the pre-Raspbian distribution.

Make sure you have run "apt-get update" followed with "apt-get upgrade", which will do a system update.

Also why are you only running 800Mhz turbo? Try at the top setting first and only drop down if you suffer any stability issues.

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bbond007: I think you have something wrong somewhere.   My 256Mb Pi (and those of friends) all work fine with whatever keyboard/mouse we happen to have spare.  It definitely sounds like something isn't right there ...

Thinking about it, I suspect that bbond007 has a power supply issue... The Raspi model B needs at least 700mA to function and some keyboards/mice will try and pull much more that that.

I'm using a 1.2A (IIRC) supply, and have has no USB issues at all.