raspberry pi

Hey

I saw this online today and I thought it would be kinda cool to buy. Basically it's a very very small computer but an operating system has to be loaded on to an sd card.

The Raspberry Pi Launch

I'm thinking about maybe buying two of the type b models and loading openSuSE and Ubuntu on them. I hope these could be good aditions to the security lab that I'm working on. Has anyone brought one of these?

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JDMurray

Keep checking Hack a Day for Raspberry Pi DIY articles. They don't even have "Raspberry Pi" in their tag cloud yet, but they do have a few Raspberry Pi articles posted.

exampasser

exampasser wrote: »

Quick question, for standard packages like dhcpd, bind, httpd, etc. for the Fedora build, does anyone know if repositories are available and/or configured for ARM builds (from what I have found out it looks like a yes but not 100% sure)?

It is indeed a yes as I mounted the image file in a VM and found out that repositories are configured.

tr1x

Update: Ordered mine yesterday, the site says it will be here in 2-3 days

jibbajabba

woot - got an invite too - flash with OS is sold out - but where is the fun in just plug and play anyway

onesaint

Fyi,

Dear Onesaint,

We're excited to inform you that your Raspberry Pi will be delivered in an upcoming shipment beginning the week of June 29th. We will have your firm delivery date, after manufacturer confirmations are made, on Newark.com.

I ordered in March.

DevilWAH

yep got my invite today

will be putting in the order shortly

alan2308

I really want a couple of these even though I have no idea what I would do with them yet.

onesaint

W00t! Just got the shipment confirmation!

Shipping Details:
Carrier Name: UPS
Carrier Service: E14 UPS GROUND
Shipment Date: 06/05/2012 13:32:05
Tracking Number: xxxx

Line No:
1
Stock No:
83T1943
Manufacturer Part No:
RASPBRRY-PCBA
UOM
Each 1
Quantity Shipped:
2
Price:
$35.00
Extended Price:
$70.00

Customer Part Number:

Description: RASPBERRY PI MODEL B - BOARD ONLY; Silicon Manufacturer:Broadcom; Core Architecture:ARM; Core Sub-Architecture:ARM11; Silicon Core Number:BCM2835; Kit Contents:Board Only

I'll see it in week or so, hopefully.

petedude

DevilWAH wrote: »

. . .
1 X external usb hard drive.
1 X Rasberry PI
2 X strips of duct tape

= one NAS/WEB server

Or a handful of these for a small Linux cluster?

jdancer

An alternative to Pi but at a higher price is the

$49 Android Desktop Computer – APC by VIA

Small form factor computers are slowly starting to pop up and VIA has announced one today that will turn a lot of heads with its $49 price point. The APC Android PC system is built on a Neo-ITX board and isn’t shy of connectivity ports. We’ve got a full size VGA, HDMI, 4 x USB 2.0, a gigabyte Ethernet, micro SD card slot. It is powered by a VIA WonderMedia ARM 11 SoC running a 800MHz with 2GB of NAND Flash and 512 DDR3 SDRAM.

DevilWAH

petedude wrote: »

Or a handful of these for a small Linux cluster?

Lots of discussions about this, really they are not sutible for clustering.

You could use them for some thing like folding at home clients (slow ones) but looking at the specs any thing like a Bawolf cluster will not work as the bottle nexks of there network ports/memory/storage will far out weight any of the benifits of the cluster.

Hypntick

Just got my shipping confirmation today. Can't wait to get it and start playing around.

jibbajabba

I wish I would get mine already - been four weeks since I ordered

exampasser

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I have yet to get mine either(ordered March 13th,expected ship date moved up to June 18th, then got moved back to June 21)

jibbajabba

Just got mine today actually .. Seems like they screwed up slightly .. got two but ordered only one ...

JDMurray

I was just watching a live stream of Minecon 2012 in Paris Disneyland and they announced a special edition of Minecraft for the Rasberry Pi. I assume this is client-only, as MC server is a single-threaded Java app and eats up to 1GB or RAM and as many CPU cycles as you can give it, so running a multi-user MC on the current RasPi would be a very laggy experience.

UPDATE: Yep, it's the MC pocket edition: http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/11/24/minecraft-raspberry-pi-edition-announced/

bermovick

A friend just posted in facebook about minecraft for PI. Saw this thread and was going to add that, but I see I was beaten to the punch.