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Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix Ready For Download
TheNextCorner writes "The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is ready for download! The recommended distro to run on the Raspberry Pi is a Remix of the Fedora open source software. The Remix is a distribution comprised of software packages from the Fedora ARM project, plus a small number of additional packages that are modified from the Fedora versions or which cannot be included in Fedora due to licensing issues – in particular, the libraries for accessing the VideoCore GPU on the Raspberry Pi."
And the RPi's hype continues to grow. What is this, fanboyism on something that hasn't even been delivered?
Dude, pogoplugs were $25 last December, shipped, from various online retailers. They're here, now, have been for months. Delivered. $49 is only the retail cost if you buy direct from the company. Run a froogle search sometimes before you run your mouth. That said, a pogoplug really isn't a valid competitor either.
That said, the RPi's low cost is due to them, for now, running this as a "charity" and supporters (which I was for months up to the awful launch) and coders (strength of open source, people are too kind, and too driven to get their code to run on everything) being stupid and giving them a lot of slack. They're taking not much profit on them. Add normal profit taking, the tax, and this thing is about the cost of a beaglebone, and does more, and less. A beaglebone's wholesale cost is likely similar to the shipped/taxed/delivered cost of the RPi.
So it's not some breakthrough low cost design. It's a mere competitor with a lot of hype. Most people looking at this are really ignorant of the available low cost alternatives are going to get boned by that incompetent team, if they haven't already.
And prices seem to be rising, since they handed over licensing to the two makers/distributors, who seem to be playing the currency conversion profit game (on top of their profit taking on volume orders; RPi's team is really profit taking by proxy but that's nothing new to how charities are run), which the idiot team, focused on their UK schools initiative, while patting themselves on the back as to their "success" and interest, bungled yet again and will be complacent in fixing, if at all. The price is unlikely to drop much, given how this is suspected to be licensed (interesting how we don't really know, given how this "charity" really isn't open about everything really).
(But don't criticize them on the boards, when they run, otherwise Liz will ban you or you'll be called a troll. No, I don't post, just watching what gets deleted and how the "swamped" team that has thousands of willing supporters continue to mishandle things.)
It's a nice pricepoint, sure, but how the project is run, the months of delay (you do know this, right?), the backordering, the whole "launch" fiasco (sheer incompetence, esp. how the team arrogantly and ineptly handled it), the project will appeal to some, because they don't know of the other options out there. This'll be good for kiosks and some low bandwidth requiring stuff, but anything more substantial will easily crush the USB bandwidth. Something cheap for kiddies to nuke learning to program? I suppose. It's more attractive as a low powered portable powered project driver, but the RPi team has in a way said that's not their intent really. Strange, right? Anyways, any unlikely future more expansive models will up the cost and make other, presently more expensive but already available (which the RPi really isn't yet) options more attractive to the knowledgeable buyer.
You can be confident all you want. They'll sell. But then it won't really grow much, unless the team learns to relinquish and delegate more. As it stands, it's sort of an ego driven endeavor by a few very talented people that don't really have good planning, financial, or people skills, and they've already burned some support. Hopefully, they'll right themselves and learn.
Those dollars matter. $35 is cookie jar money for a lot more people than $80 or $90 is. It's not just HDMI, it's HDMI and price and expandability.
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Sounds more like bad planning too me. For HDMI to be relevant at all compared to VGA we are talking about a screen that supports 1080p and probably is 30"+
If $90 is "a lot of money" you should probably try to balance the setup a bit more, drop some resolution/inches on the display and get a more expensive computer.
Nah, it's way more likely that those complaining about not getting their Raspberry Pi bought it, not because they needed it, but because they don't think that $100 is that much and $35 for a computer is so silly that you might just as well get one... or two.