[Tfug] Raspberry Pi

[keith smith]

I'm guessing the performance bottleneck is the limited RAM of 256MB.

It's still very impressive!

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 7/24/12, Jeff Breadner <jeff at breadner.ca> wrote:

From: Jeff Breadner <jeff at breadner.ca>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Raspberry Pi
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 11:23 PM

I got mine about 10 days ago, have tried Debian Squeeze, XBMC, Arch Linux and now Raspbian.  It's not nearly as fast as I was hoping, but XBMC looks very promising, once it stabilizes.  
The GUI in XBMC is very good and responsive, but it crashed whenever I went to play any video.
Debian was good, but X apps were very slow.
Raspbian looks to be the best of the lot so far as a general purpose X desktop machine, though it still has performance issues.  Still, what can one expect from a single core 800MHz processor?
I just spent this evening setting this machine up to drive a display TV at work, logging in to X automatically and launching a web browser fullscreen automatically on bootup.  
If you want to play with one and have a spare $40 you can't really go wrong, but it does help to have an idea of what you might want to do with it ahead of time.
Cheers,

  Jeff
On Jul 23, 2012 8:46 AM, "Louis Taber" <ltaber at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Keith,
The total cost has been low.
Mouse.  -- not using oneKeyboard  -- not using oneEthernet cable -- already had itPower supply -- Using my Kindle's supply

Case -  Not yet -- no mounting holes eitherSD card -- class 4 32GByte $27 no S&H AdoramaRaspberry Pi $35 + $7 S&H
-----------------------------------------Total $62 + $7 S&H

Grand total $69.
I have purchased 4GByte cards for $4 with free shipping..  So $46 is possible and usable.  There have been problems with Class 10 cards.  There is a problem in the boot loader ROM on the processor chip.


  - Louis 

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:08 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:


Hi Louis,

What was the total cost of setting up your  Raspberry Pi?  Power supply, keyboard, mouse, monitor? 



Also what power supply are you using and what about a case?

I'm sure it has to be snappy running Linux on an SD card.

Thanks for your feedback!

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Keith Smith

--- On Mon, 7/23/12, Louis Taber <ltaber at gmail.com> wrote:



From: Louis Taber <ltaber at gmail.com>
Subject: [Tfug] Raspberry Pi
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>


Date: Monday, July 23, 2012, 7:50 AM

Hi All,
I received my B version Raspberry Pi a few weeks ago.   Mine had Debian (without the hardware floating point support which is now available) install on a 32GByte SD card.  I have yet to attach a monitor or a keyboard, but it will take a HDMI or composite monitor.    Mine is running Apache2 with CGI.  I have run a test GPIO program.   The plan is to use it to control lights and such in my new shop.  At $35 + S&H (about $7 for me)  it seem to be a great little Linux box.
  Does anyone else on the list have one yet?  , or one on order?    - Louis  .  

A quick intro to the Raspberry Pi:
 http://www.raspberrypi.org/  



The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.  







"Raspberry Pi" Computer Model-BDeveloper
Raspberry Pi Foundation


TypeSingle-board computer


Release date29 February 2012[1]


Introductory priceUS$ 25 and US$ 35
Operating system


Linux (Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, and Arch Linux ARM)[2]


Power2.5 W (model A), 3.5 W (model B)
CPU


ARM1176JZF-S (armv6k) 700 MHz[3]


Storage capacitySD card slot



(SD or SDHC card)Memory256 MByte


GraphicsBroadcom VideoCore IV[3]


Websitewww.raspberrypi.org




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