[BozemanLUG] Raspberry Pi anyone?

[jjcogliati-208 at yahoo.com]

All,

Both the pandaboard and the raspberrypi look interesting, but as a warning, they both require a closed source binary for the GPU.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs  (Search for GPU binary)
http://www.omappedia.com/wiki/PandaBoard_FAQ#What_will_Graphics.2FGFX_support_be_like.3F_Will_drivers_be_released.3F

(I somewhat expect that the raspberrypi's hardware will be reverse engineered, but until and unless that happens, you should know what you are getting.)


Josh




________________________________
 From: Jeff Sharkey <jeffrey.sharkey at gmail.com>
To: Bozeman Linux Users Group <discuss at bozemanlug.org> 
Cc: BillingsLUG <billingslug at billingslug.org> 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [BozemanLUG] Raspberry Pi anyone?
 
ooh, looks cool.  :)

i've been playing with a http://pandaboard.org/ recently, it's a bit
more pricey at $185, but has OMAP4460 dual-core 1.2GHz with 1GB ram,
and runs android nice and fast.

j



On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about the Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).  Gary Bummer, David Edar and I mentioned at the BozemanLUG meeting last night... that we all want to buy a Raspberry Pi.  The first batch they have in production as I type this are 10,000 model B units (includes wired ethernet and costs $35).  The only problem is that the Raspberry Pi project is in the U.K. so anyone who buys one will have to pay shipping from the U.K. to the U.S..  They hope to eventually get a U.S. distributor but right now it is unclear how that is going to happen.
>
> Who else wants to buy a Raspberry Pi? Anyone in the wholesale / retail business that already deals with U.K. business and imports goods? Anyone interested in becoming a Raspberry Pi distributor?
>
> My guess is that the first batch of Rasberry Pis that come out will sell out pretty quickly... and might actually be hard to get... leading to having to wait for the next batch.
>
> I'm trying to encourage someone who receives this email to look into how to become a distributor so that we can get our Raspberry Pis from you.  Anyone?
>
> An alternative was to pool our money and make a multi-unit order with one shipping cost.  None of us had bought anything from the U.K. before and were wondering if there were any import duty / taxes on such things.  Anyone?
>
> TYL,
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