[Tfug] Raspberry Pi

[Jeff Breadner]

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 one
> Keyboard  -- not using one
> Ethernet cable -- already had it
> Power supply -- Using my Kindle's supply
> Case -  Not yet -- no mounting holes either
> SD card -- class 4 32GByte $27 no S&H Adorama
> Raspberry 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!
>>
>> ------------------------
>> 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 $7 for me)
>>  it seem to be a great little Linux box.  Does anyone else on the list have
>> one yet?  , or one on order?    - Louis  .
>>
>> A quick intro to the Raspberry Pi:
>>
>>  http://www.raspberrypi.org/
>>
>>
>> The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV
>> and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the
>> things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and
>> games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by
>> kids all over the world to learn programming.
>>
>>
>> "Raspberry Pi" Computer Model-BDeveloper Raspberry Pi Foundation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_Foundation>
>> TypeSingle-board computer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-board_computer> Release
>> date29 February 2012[1]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-release-0> Introductory
>> priceUS$ 25 and US$ 35
>> Operating system <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> Linux<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux>
>>  (Debian GNU/Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian>, Fedora<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_%28operating_system%29>,
>> and Arch Linux ARM <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux_ARM>)[2]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-raspberrypi_faqs-1>
>> Power2.5 W (model A), 3.5 W (model B) CPU<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit>
>> ARM1176JZF-S <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11> (armv6*k*) 700 MHz[3]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-Broadcom-BCM2835-Website-2> Storage
>> capacitySD card slot <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital>
>> (SD or SDHC card)Memory256 MByte <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte>
>> GraphicsBroadcom <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom> VideoCore IV[3]<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-Broadcom-BCM2835-Website-2>
>> Websitewww.raspberrypi.org
>>
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