The Raspberry Pi Turns One

hypnosec writes "The Raspberry Pi turned one yesterday. Raspberry Pi was first launched on 29 February 2012 in the UK and it was received with a huge amount of enthusiasm by students and researchers alike. The Pi has had quite an eventful year, with researchers building a Raspberry Pi cluster; release of an official turbo mode patch; a 512 MB RAM upgrade; the launch of a Pi Store; sales of over a million units; and release of the Minecraft Pocket Edition."

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Re: Obsolete Processor

[Kingston]

Here is something surprising I read on the Raspberry PI blog yesterday, according to a Broadcom engineer called Dom Cobley, talking about Eben Upton the originator of the Raspberry Pi project:

"The ARM was snuck into 2835 as a bit of skunkworks from Eben, who had these wild ideas about the general public being able to buy a breakout board for our chip and program it themselves. Sounded great to me, but far-fetched."

You are right about the chip, the Roku 2 media players all use the Broadcom BCM2835.

I bought a couple...

[MMC Monster]

I bought a couple just to play around with on the home network.

I am using one as an XBMC player in the kids room. It works fine, no problems. Surprising, considering how underpowered it is compared to the Atom-based computers I'm using elsewhere to run XBMC.

The other I am using as a fileserver. It's not set up in a RAID, but it gets quite good performance. So good, in fact, that I am using it for daily use to serve media throughout the house instead of the Netgear ReadyNas Duo that I originally bought for the job. (The Raspberry Pi has better throughput on both reads and writes when using ssh protocol. It also supports hard drives over 2TB.)

As a plus, I'm now completely comfortable dealing with a headless system. :-)