[QUOTE=DarkCisco;34453202]I might buy this. Will it support wi-fi?[/QUOTE]
Via a USB WiFi dongle, yes.
one of those projected keyboards+mini projected screen built in, with some sort of mouse that winds out from the thing
that would be p. neat
Any chance this'll support Ubuntu in the future if it doesn't already? It'd be awesome to set one up as a media set top box, what with the Ubuntu TV thing coming out, unless of course Boxee is supported by Debian/Fedora.
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Okay apparently Boxee only supports Ubuntu, so I'd have to rely on this thing supporting Ubuntu.
Also, this thing is apparently ever so much smaller than an Altoids tin. That gets the case out of the way. :v:
It's not a matter of if Raspi will support Ubuntu, but the other way around
[QUOTE=ief014;34456801]It's not a matter of if Raspi will support Ubuntu, but the other way around[/QUOTE]
That's what I meant. Here's hoping some hacker will make an unofficial raspberri pi build of Ubuntu in his spare time.
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I'm not very tech savvy.
when can i buy it
Needs proper pibboy to be made.
[QUOTE=ief014;34456801]It's not a matter of if Raspi will support Ubuntu, but the other way around[/QUOTE]
It's not Ubuntu as it is the kernel, if the patches the RaspberryPi guys have written are accepted into the mainline kernel, then any future distro should support the RaspberryPi fine.
I was worried before about possible issues with closed source blobs, but according to members on the forum that shouldn't be an issue as long as you keep the original SD card (The closed source firmware bits are stored separately to the kernel image, and are loaded before the kernel by the bootloader, so any Linux/*BSD release should work, as long as they have drivers)
Edit: Apparently due to a mistake the first board revisions won't support I2C, while future ones should. So if that's important for you I'd investigate it.
Edit 2: Make that I2S, I screwed up :v:
[QUOTE=notlabbet;34457555]when can i buy it[/QUOTE]
when the shipment from the factory arrives...
wow this looks cool
i might have a go at building a pip boy with one
Christ people, please stop recommending the pipboy. It has been mentioned at least a billion times already
Does anyone even have any pipboy casing?
Well if the processor is armv7 it should be able to run ubuntu linux (notice, I didn't say you could download the official version of ubuntu) because my hp touchpad can run a type of ubuntu linux (and it's an armv7 processor
if its either armv7 or armv6 it can run debian (duhh)
not exactly sure of the r-pi's processor though.
It's a 700Mhz ARMv6, There's nothing special in Ubuntu that would stop it running (The main part, the kernel, already runs fine on it)
[QUOTE=TheDecryptor;34460399]It's a 700Mhz ARMv6, There's nothing special in Ubuntu that would stop it running (The main part, the kernel, already runs fine on it)[/QUOTE]
AFAIK Canonical (The company behind Ubuntu Linux) has set the minimum supported ARM version to be ARMv7, so some packages are bound to be incompatible.
Guess it's because of their [URL="http://thetanktheory.squarespace.com/this-8-bit-life/2011/6/10/ubuntu-linux-pandabuilder.html"]ARM build farm[/URL]
Debian on the other hand supports ARMv6.
Would be awesome to hook few up to monitors in school and play with friends.
tech now-a-days is mind blowing
the people that think this stuff up..
that's all i want to say.
[QUOTE=Van-man;34460542]AFAIK Canonical (The company behind Ubuntu Linux) has set the minimum supported ARM version to be ARMv7, so some packages are bound to be incompatible.
Guess it's because of their [URL="http://thetanktheory.squarespace.com/this-8-bit-life/2011/6/10/ubuntu-linux-pandabuilder.html"]ARM build farm[/URL]
Debian on the other hand supports ARMv6.[/QUOTE]
That'd just be for the official packages though, when compiling from source that isn't an issue (worst case scenario is that you miss out on hand optimised assembler versions of normal functions)
Of course I'm sure some idiot coder out there was written x86 and ARMv7 assembler versions of their functions without providing a normal copy, never underestimate stupidity and all that.
If i somehow could turn this into some sort of laptop, would it be useful to use it as a school laptop?
[QUOTE=darth-veger;34461433]If i somehow could turn this into some sort of laptop, would it be useful to use it as a school laptop?[/QUOTE]
Forget about using special programs, but there's probably a open source alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite.
Gotta warn you though, they're often different to use, even though they do the same functions
[QUOTE=Van-man;34461477]Forget about using special programs, but there's probably a open source alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite.
Gotta warn you though, they're often different to use, even though they do the same functions[/QUOTE]
Grab a copy of OpenOffice/LibreOffice, they're actually quite familiar if you're used to MSOffice!
If OpenOffice runs on this CPU then its already a go for me.
[QUOTE=darth-veger;34461559]If OpenOffice runs on this CPU then its already a go for me.[/QUOTE]
I'd imagine it would... I can't see it being TOO hard to run.
[QUOTE=Chris220;34461595]I'd imagine it would... I can't see it being TOO hard to run.[/QUOTE]
Woops, i meant more that it would run on the ARM processor but then yeah it works
[QUOTE=darth-veger;34461616]Woops, i meant more that it would run on the ARM processor but then yeah it works[/QUOTE]
Oh, haha. OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice are quite popular, up there with GIMP, Blender, InkScape and other software like that, so hopefully we'll see some ARM ports soon that'll run nicely on rpi! :D
[QUOTE=Chris220;34461630]Oh, haha. OpenOffice and/or LibreOffice are quite popular, up there with GIMP, Blender, InkScape and other software like that, so hopefully we'll see some ARM ports soon that'll run nicely on rpi! :D[/QUOTE]
Looks like openoffice already is available on the ARM platform:
[url]http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/armel/openoffice.org/download[/url]
Both can be compiled on ARM, I think.
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