On 06/02/13 12:15, Tony Langdon wrote:
On 6/02/13 11:53 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
In terms of promoting computer education the relevane issue is that it's always the case that discounts get people interested in buying. If some people who had no previous plans to buy a Raspberry Pi get one and learn things because of a LUV deal then that will be a good thing. If people who planned to buy one just save some money through reduced postage costs then that's a good thing too.
Nothing wrong with that either way. I've already bought one (from RS). Wouldn't mind another one or two, but funds don't permit it ATM. :( Still yet to put mu Pi into service, I have a few purposes to choose from, it's definitely not a solution looking for a problem - it's which problem to choose! :)
And then, having an hour or two to spend babysitting the Debian installer! Man, the Raspberry Pi is NOT a high performance device! I can see why Ubuntu spurned supporting it, and targeted the next ARM level as minimum spec. I have a BeagleBone, two MK802-like devices, and a Raspberry Pi model B. The Raspberry Pi is by far and away the slowest of them all. It's half the speed of the BeagleBone, and then the two Chinese Allwinner A10 devices are faster again. If you're serious about playing with small, low-power embedded-style devices, get the BeagleBone. The Linux support is excellent, there's lots of hardware you can add to it, and it has a million i/o methods. If you're less serious, and don't want to spend the money to get a Beaglebone, and just want a miniature Linux device, have a look at the Cubieboard: https://www.miniand.com/products/Cubieboard%20Developer%20Board It's about the same price as a Raspberry Pi, only you get double the memory, triple the CPU performance, a SATA port, more I/O ports, and it has 4GB of nand on-chip.