Yellow Dog Linux

I'd love to have one of these:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/h ... p?id=66520

The funny thing is that I imagine it greatly exceeds the performance (hardware accelerated 3D ) of Linux/OtherOS on the PS3 and it costs what ... about $40 including shipping? Think I'll have to get one as soon as they're available.

billb wrote:I'd love to have one of these:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/h ... p?id=66520

The funny thing is that I imagine it greatly exceeds the performance (hardware accelerated 3D ) of Linux/OtherOS on the PS3 and it costs what ... about $40 including shipping? Think I'll have to get one as soon as they're available.

Yeah - I'm keeping my eyes on these as well. Very cool concept.

Cheers,
Paul

I already have my old C64 hollowed out so I can get a C64 keyboard -> USB adapter and put that in there with the Raspberry Pi.

since you guys are interested in this(not really myself), it looks like its going to be delayed more now: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Raspberr ... 1898.shtml

Thanks ... my Raspberry C64 will have to wait, then.

NIce detailed review of the Raspberry Pi:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/pcs/20 ... i-review/1

Already doing things we never could on the PS3.

XBMC and YouTube running on the Raspberry Pi
http://t.co/D6EnwfQd

billb wrote:I'd love to have one of these:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/h ... p?id=66520

The funny thing is that I imagine it greatly exceeds the performance (hardware accelerated 3D ) of Linux/OtherOS on the PS3 and it costs what ... about $40 including shipping? Think I'll have to get one as soon as they're available.

Amazing technology, truly! However, it is built in such a way that it's a real puzzle to build into a working system given what it has versus what has to be added to it! I guess whether it is worth the time depends upon one's skills versus the projects one could work on given a functional working system one had to start with.

Any news?

Oh and I lied, got myself a model B raspi

Some pics:
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Even got a gaming server running on it
http://forum.cubers.net/thread-5775-pos ... #pid107050

Here more specs http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware

Nice

Ordered a Raspberry Pi model b today from mcmelectronics ... newark has them in stock as well.

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-14277

http://www.newark.com/raspberry-pi/rasp ... =lookahead

So I've had my RPi for a couple days now and haven't broken it yet. They recently started allowing you to overclock them quite a bit (from 700Mhz to 1Ghz) without voiding your warranty (see here).

It reminds me of my early days of getting involved in YDL / PS3 Linux, with the community excited to learn what it could and couldn't do, making improvements, helping each other, etc... Lots of coffee, sleepless nights, victories, failures... Fun stuff.

The official forum is here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/

Ah Jeez - I'm going to have to get one now.

Luckily, it's a lot less than the $600.00 for the PS3

Cheers,
Paul

One disappointing thing about the RPi -- it appears there won't be any regular "desktop" OpenGL support on Linux. It looks like pretty much everything would need to be modified to use OpenGL ES (which, as I understand it, would require source code modification unless support was already built-in). I was hoping to be able to install and run OpenGL applications and games with no trouble, but this is not the case.

Still there's plenty of fun stuff to do with it.

billb wrote:One disappointing thing about the RPi -- it appears there won't be any regular "desktop" OpenGL support on Linux. It looks like pretty much everything would need to be modified to use OpenGL ES (which, as I understand it, would require source code modification unless support was already built-in). I was hoping to be able to install and run OpenGL applications and games with no trouble, but this is not the case.

Still there's plenty of fun stuff to do with it.

Like this!

How to set up your Raspberry Pi to play Atari 2600 games

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. Been running a lot of Haiku-OS lately. Yes - I was a Be subscriber.