ARM Raspberry Pi commitment

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#151 Post by don570 »

There's a good article and a video explaining
the technology at the end of the article

http://www.thespec.com/news/business/ar ... spberry-pi

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#152 Post by Lobster »

Sacred Seashells [Lobsterian cussing]
Just got this email
Dear Customer

Thank you for joining the Raspberry Pi revolution and registering your interest in Raspberry Pi’s Model B board from RS Components.

We have received extraordinary levels of demand for this product. To help ensure as many people as possible can experience the Raspberry Pi concept, we are limiting boards to one per customer, and we will send you further information on your request in the next seven days. Once we receive the boards into stock, they will be allocated on a first-come first-serve basis, in order of when requests were received.

Thank you for your patience; we will be in touch as soon as possible with more details.


RS Components
This is the UK situation with one of the suppliers
I will not be allowed to pre-order for up to 7 days? :shock:
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same

#153 Post by raffy »

You are not alone.
Regarding the Raspberry Pi, we will be in touch with you as soon as the product becomes available

- RS Philippines
And the PH page of Farnell requires trade account, so the order page stays frozen.
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#154 Post by greengeek »

Lobster wrote: Hidden in there was a demo done by Russian guys who were using hercules display cards and monitors (which could not do graphics) to do graphics, using ascii text.
Only a geek would appreciate it - and I did
http://youtu.be/-cs303ToBY8

That was cool. Very clever. Now we know where "The Matrix" got the inspiration.
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#155 Post by Lobster »

That was cool. Very clever. Now we know where "The Matrix" got the inspiration.
anyone want to to compile for Neo Puppy?
http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/
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#156 Post by Pence »

Raspberrypi.org is back again.
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#157 Post by darkcity »

http://www.raspberrypi.org/

good stuff, still thinking about ordering one ; -)

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Hitler demands

#158 Post by don570 »

Hitler demands prompt delivery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mY5P8Ew ... re=related

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#159 Post by Aitch »

Potential Arm port bases, Arch and Slackware

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 371#609371

Aitch :)

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#160 Post by scsijon »

And Mageia2 and Pardus are in the mix.

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#161 Post by Lobster »

I will not be allowed to pre-order for up to 7 days?
Guys
finally managed to order an ARM
- that is some hardware promise at last :lol:

Tommorrow will get an HDMI cable,
some raspberries - my new fruit favourite
and will put Debian on an SD card (to start the bootstrap process)

Do we have a Pussy ISO or other Puppy like start point
created in a virtual ARM? :?

Otherwise I will have to create my own (not a pretty sight)
as I flap about like a fish out of water . . .

Our Puppy Hacker school is now ahead of the old grammarrains
and I have added us as a major distribution for Rpi - well we are in the future :wink:
http://elinux.org/Rpi_Education

OK it has taken me 4 days just to order
- but hopefully I will eventually have two boards - at least.

I am also wondering if a wireless keyboard and mouse is a good idea?

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#162 Post by greengeek »

darkcity wrote:the question is performance/watt

only trouble is performance is hard to measure between different architectures. one may be good at one, the other at another.
I'm guessing that the Pi will be approximately 3.1415926535 times as efficient.

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first design of a case for Raspberry P

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Here's the first design of a case for Raspberry Pi

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-573 ... e-at-home/

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#164 Post by Aitch »

Nice enough
...a bit of raspberry paint on the logo is all it needs :wink:

Aitch :)

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#165 Post by Lobster »

Here's the first design of a case for Raspberry Pi
Pi and Pi
as I and I, Lobster Dreadlock and the RaspaFarrians say
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People are selling old cigarette packets on ebay as biodegradable cases.
Others are making cases out of lego or fruit pastille tins.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/genera ... spberry-pi

Rpi foundation will be offering a clear plastic case once in schools
and if they have any sense (and they do) will offer a range of fruity tints (OK maybe just raspberry clear to start with) . . . :)

I prefer an origami type case, which we can print on card and then lacquer
if requiring any stiffness. Now there is an enterprise for an intrepid Puppy Raspberrian . . . 8)
http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/

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Sounds like Fedora remix might be slow on the Raspberry Pi

#166 Post by rrolsbe »

From what I have read in the online forums, it appears the Fedora remix distribution recommended for the Raspberry Pi is sluggish. Hopefully Puppy Linux will be MUCH better for this hardware platform?

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#167 Post by markyd68a »

I am very lucky, the wife got up early and ordered me a slice of Pi when it was available so should be getting one soon.

Would very much like to get involved in Puppy Pi or what ever it will be called.

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#168 Post by darkcity »

great stuff, mine will probably arrive backend of summer :twisted:

puppy is well suited to slower hardware. lots of experience of slim software in the kennels 8) How the transition to arm goes is another matter.

the plan is to trim debian, although there is an arm version of slackware - not sure if its compiled for ARMv6 architecture that RPi runs on :idea:

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#169 Post by darkcity »

http://www.armedslack.org/
Raspberry Pi

There's a lot of buzz around the Raspberry Pi at the moment, and I'm pleased to confirm two things:

Slackware ARM's packages (from 13.37 and -current) will run on the Raspberry Pi as is
Slackware ARM will provide a ready-to-run Kernel for the Raspberry Pi once a Pi is physically available to us (a couple of others in the Slackware core team are ordering one and I might get one too). Currently for those of your who have a Pi in your hands, you'll need to compile your own Kernel. I'll look into whether the Pi can be installed using the regular Slackware installer once the Kernels are prepared.

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#170 Post by markyd68a »

This will be the most "hardcore" Linux thing I have ever done, dont get me wrong been dabling for quite a while and due to dam HD failure Slacko is my day to day OS until I get home and get it sorted (Slacko, 3G MiFi and any piece of junk I can stick my USB drive into ha ha)

Now in X86 world you would boot up via CD/DVD drive using you fav iso and install to hd / usb etc but I believe in Pi land you cant do that and can only boot of the SD slot, is that correct?

If so ... how do you get to build the SD image?

Head hurts and don't even have a Pi in my hands yet!

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