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Adafruit Releases Educational Linux Distro For Raspberry Pi

Posted by Soulskill on from the mix-of-good-things dept.

ptorrone writes "Open-source hardware company Adafruit has released a Linux Raspberry Pi distro for hardware hacking and teaching electronics. This distro comes with SPI, I2C, & OneWire WiFi. It also has some things to make overall hacking easier, such as sshd on startup (with key generation on first boot) and Bonjour (so you can simply ssh raspberrypi.local from any computer on the local network). The distro is called Occidentalis v0.1. Rubus occidentalis (the black raspberry) is derived from Raspbian Wheezy, and is available for download here."

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  1. Wow, a story about Raspberry Pi by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who would have thought it?

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    1. Re:Wow, a story about Raspberry Pi by Threni · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This must mean they will be available for purchase soon.*

      *By purchase I mean `go online and order one for delivery in the next few days`, not select from a couple of different companies who have different prices for exactly the same goods and 'register an interest' in the hope that I'll get one in the next few months.

      I was interested in one, once, but you can get a much more powerful Android phone for the same price as a Pi+ delivery+the other stuff you need to make it sensible (wifi, for instance). (Not sure how a Pi is a better choice for a budding programmer than an Android phone.)