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Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store
sfcrazy writes "Raspberry Pi developer team has introduced the Pi store, a place to get software for Raspberry Pi, in collaboration with IndieCity and Velocix. The team hopes that the store will become a one-stop-shop for Raspbian Pi users. The store already has 23 major applications available for users including LibreOffice and Asterisk. There are classic games like Freeciv and OpenTTD and Raspberry Pi exclusive Iridium Rising. The team also managed to get 'one piece of commercial content: the excellent Storm in a Teacup from Cobra Mobile.'"
I thought this was all about open source and stuff. Aren't these Apple Stores completely contrary to the spirit of OSS?
Total fail on the name, extremely hard to pronounce for non-english speakers.
Why do you need an "App Store" clone for every OS now? How is this supposed to make sense for free software in a Debian based distribution? Why don't they just put that stuff into regular apt repo?
"...Mrs Miggins' Pi Shop...." ?
I take Japanese, with its far simpler syllable structure than English, as a measure of how non-English speakers are likely to distort something's pronunciation. Japanese speakers pronounce raspberry as ra-zu-be-ri-i, and ra-zu-bi-a-n doesn't sound any harder.
Why don't they just put that stuff into regular apt repo?
Let me know when "regular apt repo" supports authentication, which would allow paid downloads of certain types of software that inherently don't mesh well with the free software movement or open source methodology.
It should be Mrs. Miggins' Pi Shoppe! I hear that they have a "Cunning Plan" to get people to get their software from here...
And even worse, we get to sift through all the comments from basement-dwellers complaining about how hard it is to ignore stories they're not interested in.
(Yes, I appreciate the irony of how I could have not seen this comment if I were not browsing at -1)
Apparently wizard is not a legitimate career path, so I chose programmer instead.
How is that different from slamming a web interface on top of apt repo?
at the Raspberry Pi store, it does not seem possible to buy a Raspberry Pi. Odd
To the casual, new-to-linux users, a "store" is going to be less scary and less intimidating than going through apt-get. Adding the store has not taken away the option of going through the repositories, just added another way of putting extra software on your RasPi.
That said, I'm not particularly impressed with the current selection of "apps" - even if it has a great time waster available in FreeCiv.
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
With their apps and cloud space and Ajax.
Back when I was young, we called them applications, servers, and well, soap.
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Now if only you could actually order a Raspberry Pi to run your software with, now that would be something to post on /. about!
It seems that while projects like Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi are gaining more attention, making money is coming more and more to the picture, in a world where "open source" has so far been almost like a synonym to "software free in cost".
Awesome little board but quite possibly the worst power setup that could have been chosen.
... package manager
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As any British person will tell you, that should be a Pi Shop.
Not working is relative. Raspberry Pi has some issues (for me the main issue seems to be the low powered USB port which in practise requires using it with a powered USB hub), but it seems to work better than I imaged it would work. And it might have some compatibility problems (sometimes I have had to remove and then re-insert an USB device to make it work) with some devices.
So far, I haven't tried any torture tests or used oscilloscope to check if I am able to detect stuttering when using USB sound card. However, I haven't heard/noticed any stuttering when I have used it to play something, if the load has been light.
Of course it is not perfect. For example, web browsing could work a bit faster. It would be nice if there would be good Android port for it. It would be nice, if the build in sound using 3.5 mm audio connector (instead of using HDMI or external USB sound card) would have better quality etc.
I have never, and will never, buy anything related to BluRay.
The studios have already phased out VHS, and they're starting to phase out DVD as well: Ishtar skipped DVD and went straight to Blu-ray. So when the studios phase out DVD, do you plan to stop watching movies?
As for the tax software, I'm not quite sure what you get from the accounting firms. A list of loopholes?
What you get from Intuit and H&R Block is a machine-readable version of the latest tax code in the form of an expert system that makes sure you haven't missed any required fields or the most commonly used loopholes and makes sure that your calculations are correct.
In the various countries that I have filled in taxes, the software I used was free of charge
Incumbent tax firms have fought the government's attempts to make its own tax software available to the general public in the United States, claiming that it would constitute unfair competition with private-sector tax software.
Finally, for video games, I made an exception, and went for a console.
So you made a choice that video games developed by startups are not for you. All three console makers require a company to have financial stability (including a dedicated secure office) and to have already developed paid games for PCs or paid games for mobile phones before being allowed to develop for their platforms. Do you remember the Bob's Game incident, where Robert Pelloni couldn't get a license to develop for the DS because his business was run out of his home? If all gamers made this choice, where would startups gain the experience that console makers require?
In the end, I feel the choice between Microsoft and Sony was arbitrary.
Then why not just choose both and buy a VAIO PC? It has Microsoft software on Sony hardware, and it's far friendlier to indie games than any console whose name starts with X or P (or especially W).
It's not a valid excuse that the system is "new"; legally displaying the proper license is an especially obvious requirement.
I'm sure it was ignored in the interests of pushing the thing out the door by a certain deadline.
Please help metamoderate.