Raspberry pi on sale.

[commodorejohn]

Now posting from a Raspberry Pi The Debian distribution seems a little slipshod (mostly the menu needs cleaning up,) but the hardware works like a charm

 

[salaxi54]

still waiting for my code

You're in a hurry! I haven't gotten my code yet either, but it's been a longer wait than yours..

 

[morcar]

still waiting for my code

You're in a hurry! I haven't gotten my code yet either, but it's been a longer wait than yours..

I have to be honest if this android tab delivers today (the wifes getting her present early) then i wont need one and i can offer the code on here for someone. I can then buy another tab for myself.

 

[salaxi54]

I have to be honest if this android tab delivers today (the wifes getting her present early) then i wont need one and i can offer the code on here for someone. I can then buy another tab for myself.

I'll keep that in mind, just in case mine doesn't show earlier than your code!!

 

[AmiNeo]

Got mine in the post yesterday. Cant say I'm impressed with it's speed, but seems that the code is largely unoptimised for the little thing at the moment. Not that I was expecting it to be lightening fast but it does feel like its being held back by current OS offerings.
If Amiga Workbench can run on a 7MHz processor with 1MB RAM this should fly given the right OS, even at 1080p given its GPU specs.

I'm looking forwards to Puppi from puppylinux and looking out for some more lightweight offerings that may be out there / on their way.

Anyone know if there will be any AMIGA related support ? It seems like the ideal platform to run retro OS on, though I guess the difference in architecture would be a bit of a wall.

 

[johnim]

aros is looking at it

 

[AmiNeo]

Nice! That'll be a treat.

 

[johnim]

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=8109

 

[AmiNeo]

Thanks Johnim!

Posting this from my Pi. I'm now using the alpha of Debian 'Wheezy' and its much faster than the previous 'squeeze' version. Still not perfect but I can see improvements coming already! It also feels much more complete than the previous version. I recommend anyone using a Pi use it to help them bug test and get it running better. It's by far the fastest OS ive found so far and I've gone through about 5.

 

[salaxi54]

I was talking to Element14 the other day, and their employee told me it should be shipped to me sometime next week... As about why i haven't received any code yet, he told me that out of UK destinations will not be receiving a code, for they will not be shipping with UPS.
That also means a slight reduction in total sum.
Let's just hope what they said counts.

 

[nick123]

I was talking to Element14 the other day, and their employee told me it should be shipped to me sometime next week... As about why i haven't received any code yet, he told me that out of UK destinations will not be receiving a code, for they will not be shipping with UPS.
That also means a slight reduction in total sum.
Let's just hope what they said counts.

mine was deliveried thursday by royal mail and mine was ordered from element14

i dont know about getting any code all i got was a load of emails when ordered then 2 emails a day or so before i recieved it, the 1st email stated my pi was shipped and the second email said there was a delay with the shipping of my pi and it will be despatched week commencing 25/06/12 may be im getting another PI

 

[robinsonb5]

I'm looking forward to playing with AROS on this thing

Also Bodhi Linux, my current favourite lightweight Linux distro now has an alpha for the Pi!

 

[protek]

Could you get MeeGo on Raspberry Pi?

 

[nick123]

I'm looking forward to playing with AROS on this thing

Also Bodhi Linux, my current favourite lightweight Linux distro now has an alpha for the Pi!

i was also very interested to see aros running on the pi and i did have it installed for a very short while.
i couldn't get anything to really run on it one of my friends also installed it and he couldn't change screen modes (i never tried myself)
i know the version thats out is more of a test version and yes it does boot but i couldn't get a lot more out of it. I'm looking forward to when they release a newer version.

 

[miner2049er]

Mine arrived on Thursday but so far doesn't boot with any of my USB keyboards in.

 

[bobpard]

are these things really rare or something now, as there is some chap on gumtree leeds trying to sell one for £350!! with a keyboard and a monitor

 

[AmiNeo]

Theyre not rare, anyone can nab one for under £30 from Farnell, theres just a long waiting list and people seem to be charging whatever they like in the hopes people don't want to wait and would pay the extra to get one sooner. Waited approx 2 and a half months or so before I got mine. They just cant produce them to keep up with demand.


(@mods - Hope the price isn't a rule breaker, pretty sure the Pi would be an exception???)


@ Protek... Any OS needs to be specially modified and recompiled for the CPU architecture so unless theyre doing so... This is also why many OS dont run as good as they could on it right now, many are missing drivers and havent yet been properly optimised.

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Mine arrived on Thursday but so far doesn't boot with any of my USB keyboards in.

What OS have you put on the SD card? Just FYI, the Pi wont boot to anything without the OS.

 

[Tajmaster]

Pardon my ignorance but could someone kindly explain what the Pi actually does/is used for?

Is it just a device to encourage programming??

 

[AmiNeo]

Yup its a cheap as chips, budget friendly, miniature PC built on the ARM6 processor. It was designed by a lecturer at Chambridge Uni to encourage people, especially kids with little of their own money, to get into programming without having to worry about messing up or having to buy expensive hardware.

Due to its size and power consumption, people are experimenting and using it for all kinds of projects though. They're pretty versatile.

Direct from their website: "The idea behind a tiny and cheap computer for kids came in 2006, when Eben Upton and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, including Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science in each academic year. From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applying were coming to interview as experienced hobbyist programmers, the landscape in the 2000s was very different; a typical applicant might only have done a little web design.

Something had changed the way kids were interacting with computers. A number of problems were identified: the colonisation of the ICT curriculum with lessons on using Word and Excel, or writing webpages; the end of the dot-com boom; and the rise of the home PC and games console to replace the Amigas, BBC Micros, Spectrum ZX and Commodore 64 machines that people of an earlier generation learned to program on.

There isn’t much any small group of people can do to address problems like an inadequate school curriculum or the end of a financial bubble. But we felt that we could try to do something about the situation where computers had become so expensive and arcane that programming experimentation on them had to be forbidden by parents; and to find a platform that, like those old home computers, could boot into a programming environment. From 2006 to 2008, Eben designed several versions of what has now become the Raspberry Pi."

The Pi's homepage:
www.raspberrypi.org

 

[Tajmaster]

Yup its a cheap as chips, budget friendly, miniature PC built on the ARM6 processor. It was designed by a lecturer at Chambridge??? Uni to encourage people to get into programming without having to worry about messing up or having to buy expensive hardware.

Ahh, nice one Neo Not really for me then I suppose