Raspberry PI

[bigjohnson]

I got a Raspberry Pi from my wife. This little computer is about the size of a credit card. It does not look like much but is a real true to life computer. Very easy to set up and looks to be a lot of fun. It runs on a version of linux. I am making a post at this time on it!

raspberrypi.org

[chrisbard]

Ohh how cute, I will stick with my laptop for a while, did I mention I have Windows OS on it?

[bigjohnson]

It is cute no doubt about it!
I am for sure going to take a closer look at single board computers!

[Daniel ~]

There's actually a fair amount of interest in this forums in your Raspberry PI!

Several members have "tried" to aquire one but demand out striped availbilty. Can you post a few pics?

[Daniel ~]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

Ohh how cute, I will stick with my laptop for a while, did I mention I have Windows OS on it?

Trolling for pity again ChrisB? We all feel bad you can't seem to work with a descent OS. We are therefore not surprised you can't seem to install it on descent hardware...

(Score another one for the Raspberry!":O}

[robbie]

Asking BigJohnson for pix of his pi... hmmmmm LOL

[chrisbard]

Originally Posted by robbie

Asking BigJohnson for pix of his pi... hmmmmm LOL

It's from his wife, it's acceptable!

[Daniel ~]

Have you guys been drinking?

[bigjohnson]

I'll charge up the camera and get some pics.

[Daniel ~]

Much appreciated! ":O}

(Show these hicks what a small computer looks like! ":O}

[chrisbard]

I might have been a bit at the time, but it was Rob provoking me!

[Daniel ~]

Unless he was pouring your drinks...":O}

[chrisbard]

There you go, nothing to be seen here, move along!

Actually is pretty small and pretty if you are a geek but the question is, can it run a decent OS?

[booman]

My geek question is... does it run games?

I've seen a youtube video of someone running Quake on it, but thats about it.

I originally ordered a Rasberry Pi but it was on back-order. By the time it was ready, they messed up my order and didn't charge me for it.
At the same time I couldn't afford it...

I'll try again at another time.

[Daniel ~]

Hook up an SSD (Or a mechanical if you must) and it will give you Mint 15 with all the trimmings... That's the whole point as I understand it!

[booman]

Rasberry Pi already has an SD slot for flash memory cards.
You can get 16 Gig cards, and load games on it.

The bottleneck is really the video chip.

[bigjohnson]

I don't know if it will run games or not. Though it does run some tic tack toe kind of stuff.
You tube won't run. The little pc locks up.

[chrisbard]

Originally Posted by bigjohnson

I don't know if it will run games or not. Though it does run some tic tack toe kind of stuff.
You tube won't run. The little pc locks up.

I guess some software is missing there.

[booman]

Do some research on Fedora's and Ubuntu's Rasberry Pi distro... you may have more success with those...
Otherwise, I bet flash player isn't installed... or maybe there needs to be an update?

Which browser are you using?

[Aedan]

Originally Posted by chrisbard

Actually is pretty small and pretty if you are a geek but the question is, can it run a decent OS?

I can run enough of an OS on it to man in the middle your SSL connections without you knowing... That's enough for me.