[GRLUG] Raspberry Pi launched!

Thu Mar 1 10:35:20 EST 2012

I think for me it's simply the price. Most devices like this tend to be
closer to $100 or more. Yes, I have an old smart phone which I can put
Debian on, but that is only one device. I probably can't find an old used
smartphone for $35 especially one with Ethernet and HDMI.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:

>  Oh, I don't disagree at all.  I think it's quite a cool project and will
> probably end up buying one (or something like it) myself someday.
>
> What I object to is the artificial barrier the thought of it seems to be
> building in peoples' minds against them achieving their goals right away.
>
> And keep in mind this is coming from a guy who really misses the days when
> you could walk into a local electronics store and buy a 4017, so I may be a
> little biased toward building things myself.  :)
>
> - Kyle
>
>
>
>
> On 02/29/2012 11:26 PM, John Wesorick wrote:
>
> A supported common platform is one reason. Availability (once they start
> mass producing them) and price are others. For my project at least (same
> thing with RaspBMC) , it would be super easy to host the already
> built/setup OS, download it and dd to an SD card.
>
> Also, all hacking that's done on them benefits education (the Raspberry
> Pi's main goal) in two ways. One, so the capabilities of the device can be
> explored/tutorialized (yes, that's a word I just made up) and second that
> once they are produced for schools, there will already be tons of cool
> projects for kids to get excited for.
>
> My two cents.
> On Feb 29, 2012 11:11 PM, "Kyle" <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>  What I wonder is why there's so much hype for this when there are other
>> cheap low-power ARM devices being thrown out all the time.  There are
>> plenty of cell phones and other devices that'll run Debian just fine - old
>> cell phones, old e-book readers, etc. - that suit the purposes of a number
>> of the members' use cases.  Even broken devices.  Who needs a working EDGE
>> modem - just about anything with WiFi fits the bill on a bunch of the use
>> cases, and any device that has software control of USB host mode (most ARM
>> devices I've encountered) solve the external storage cases.  HDMI requires
>> a phone or other device with an HDMI port (without an external graphics
>> card on USB host mode or something similar).  Some of the devices
>> (particularly e-readers) do not have media decoding chips, but I don't see
>> a need for that, nor even seeing it being used due to unlikeliness of
>> compiler compatibility in a case like an Asterisk server.  That may be
>> inaccurate, but it still satisfies a lot of use cases.  I mean, I regularly
>> carry around two ARM devices that run Debian (and were not designed to) and
>> one that runs Ubuntu (again, not designed for it).  It's not particularly
>> difficult.  There are tools available to build chroot images that often
>> times you can run under Android with minimal effort, giving you a familiar
>> userland which you can apt-get install packages to.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong - the Raspberry Pi is a cool device - but I guess my
>> point is that even without getting one, the possibilities and wants I've
>> seen expressed are already achievable!  Go build cool things!
>>
>> - Kyle
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/29/2012 08:57 AM, Clay Ashby wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking forward to playing with this. For the purpose of
>> conversation; what's everyone planning to do with theirs? Maybe this has
>> already been discussed and I missed it...
>>
>>  My first thought was getting it to access internet through my Android
>> phone. It might be fun to try and cluster a few of them - pointless, but
>> fun.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Brandon White <rbwhite18 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Same situation here... lame...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 29, 2012, at 7:18 AM, megadave wrote:
>>>
>>> > Actually R-Pi's site was fine.
>>> >
>>> > It was their 'partner sites' (the ones that were supposed to be
>>> > actually taking orders) that fell over hard.
>>> >
>>> > FWIW, I was actually on at the time (by plan) trying to get in and
>>> > order.. I tried for half an hour before giving up and going to bed. It
>>> > appears that all either of their partner sites are now offering is
>>> > "register an interest".
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:42, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> Official launch was a few hours ago (6am GMT), and the demand was high
>>> >> enough to cripple their site. Shall we start a betting pool on how
>>> long it
>>> >> will take before somebody at GRLUG has one in hand on this side of the
>>> >> ocean?
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