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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

Hope it is okay that I am very selfish here and ask particular things?
Now I know that one have to buy a very special high quality SD card
of the big type.

What about the connection to keyboard and mouse?

I would want to buy a USB Hub that I connect to the RPI
and that way get these possibilities.

From USB socket on Hub to USB socket on RPi?
From USB Keyboard to USB socket on Hub
From USB Mouse to USB socket on Hub
From USB Flash Memory or External HardDisk. to USB socket on Hub

Does that work or does one need to use bluetooth and IR and
Wifi and such for keyboard and mouse?

tsal · Joined: 13 Jul 2012 Posts: 4 Location: USA

Thanks lobster. Yes, hdmi. Found http://elinux.org/RPi_config.txt
has the info i needed

eowens2 · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 146

nooby said:

Lobster · Posted: Tue 17 Jul 2012, 23:19 Post subject:

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

Hi,

Just downloading Raspbian. It'll be interesting to see if it is fast ...

I just thought I'd share something I have been working on - it's a little gui calculator written in Python.
It seems to work, but needs tidying up. Let's say it's a "pre-Alpha".
If anyone want to give it a try and let me know if they find any bugs ...

T_Hobbit · Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 400 Location: Portugal - Lisbon

Loading my Raspberry Pi system...

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8568 Location: qld

I might tidy up my "cockraoch" build based on Wheezy then get back to SLR (based on armed slack). I learned a lot building something more advanced than what woof could handle at the time.

Barry is working on a Raspian woof build, that will fix many bugs in woof for newer Debian based woof versions, and help me debug my Armedslack version.

More to come ... Wink

Lobster · Posted: Sat 21 Jul 2012, 02:02 Post subject:

T_Hobbit has his Rpi primed and prepared in Portugal ready to try out the efforts of our Pi-oneers. Hooray. Cool

Antiloquax using an emphasis on Arch code, Saluki styling and Python serpentile efforts might release an ISO over the summer?

Getting woof to work on ARM is beyond me. I tried. I failed. I gave up. I blamed bugman. Embarassed

I will leave the smart stuff to Micko and his soon to be revived SLR

Barry continues to improve both woof and Puppi Warp (next release - read comments)
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02912

As you know I am just a self-glorified end user. Rpi is teaching me the 'Zen in the Art of Raspberry'.
Working at this early phase is enlightening.
. . . must remember the words of Master Yoda . . .

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

I love the idea of RPi and happy the kids that have teachers that teach them to do programming on them.

But apart from the Classroom environ.

If one look at them from a Average Joe home computer perspective then the RPi is not ideal.

Mele1000 and MK802 and Via APC and many more are easier to get going?

Take the Via APC it cost only 49USD and have more connections then RPi has and you don't need no fancy TV with HDMI cable connection but you can connect such if you have one and you get VGA out to any old monitor you may have laying around Smile

HDMI TV is rather expensive. As an old retired Nooby I have thrown away some 4 VGA monitors due to them taking up too much space on the shelfs and now I only have 4 VGA LCD screen but only one HDMI screen and that is the TV for to look at TV and not for doing computing on.

So a Via APC costing only ten USD more has better connections I can connect USB keyboard and USB mouth without having to buy any Hub or to buy Wifi keyboard and Wifi mouse.

Via APC can also have Linux on it.

it has good RAM memory too but the GPU is only 12XX x 768 so it is not the highest resolution. But I am using 1024 x 768 now and that is okay with me.

So don't get me wrong I do love the RPi concept for Schoolroom but from a practical Linux point of view would not any of the others be even more practical?

Sorry if this is seen as derailing this good thread. Just trying to be practical

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

eowens2 · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 146

nooby said:

puppy_apprentice · Joined: 07 Feb 2012 Posts: 147

every new desktop/laptop comes with stickers on it, it will be nice if our Puppy graphicians could prepare some for Puppy and RPi, it could be something like that (i've found similar in Linux Format magazine for other distros):

Lobster · Posted: Mon 23 Jul 2012, 10:39 Post subject:

Alucinary · Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 15 Location: UK

Hi guys,

Just got my Pi and great to see the work going ahead that will let me use Puppy Smile

Unless I've been a bit blind and missed them then I'm really looking forward to seeing the first releases for me to download and boot!

Not sure I'm much cop at helping the progress but wanted to voice my avid support since Puppy is the only version Linux that's ever got me interested enough to use it let alone think about using it long term instead of MS Windows...

Cheers for the efforts!

Alucinary