First Steps With the Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 3, 2012 @12:17PM from the free-in-cracker-jacks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Raspberry Pi received an extraordinary amount of pre-launch coverage. It truly went viral with major news corporations such as the BBC giving extensive coverage. Not without reason, it is groundbreaking to have a small, capable computer retailing at less than the price of a new console game. There have been a number of ventures that have tried to produce a cheap computer such as a laptop and a tablet but which never materialised at these price points. Nothing comes close to the Raspberry Pi in terms of affordability, which is even more important in the current economic climate. Producing a PC capable of running Linux, Quake III-quality games, and 1080p video is worthy of praise." Beyond praise, though, this article details the hooking-up and mucking-about phases, and offers some ideas of what it's useful for.

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stop copying Apple with these awful food names! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-03 14:05 · Score: -1, Redundant

Try getting some fucking originality you damn losers. Linux is successful and it has a fucking made-up name. If I hear one more bullshit ass pastry fucking name for a kind of software I'm going to puke.