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Re: 3 micro-computers you can use everyday

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Post by Newky » Mon, Dec 26, 2011, 10:55 PM UTC

Will the raspberry pi ship with some form of Ubuntu?

I hadn't heard this as the specific distribution of choice, but I could be wrong. Would be an interesting choice considering all of the Ubuntu media turbulence.

I had heard at one stage that it would run some form of fedora. Will be interesting piece of hardware regardless.

Re: 3 micro-computers you can use everyday

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Post by justincormack » Mon, Dec 26, 2011, 11:08 PM UTC

hopeless wrote: post #6

From the title I'd thought this would be about practical uses of this hardware. They sound really cool but I haven't seen the big "need" that they're fulfilling.

They are small, low power, and silent. Hopefully cheap too. There has been a gap for stuff for applications like building your own tablet, netbook, robot, media centre, home automation, helicopter, 3d printer etc that people are looking to these to fill, especially now that the graphics are good enough to do video which previously ARM SoCs couldnt. You can have something under 5W a few inches square with integrated interfaces for not much money soon.

Re: 3 micro-computers you can use everyday

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Post by wcchandler » Tue, Dec 27, 2011, 12:05 AM UTC

Newky wrote: post #11

Will the raspberry pi ship with some form of Ubuntu? I hadn't heard this as the specific distribution of choice, but I could be wrong. Would be an interesting choice considering all of the Ubuntu media turbulence. I had heard at one stage that it would run some form of fedora. Will be interesting piece of hardware regardless.

It was buzzed around that Ubuntu would be their targeted distro but it doesn't support ARMv6.