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Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units -- continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever. The computer, about the same size as a credit card, was first released in 2012 and is widely used as an educational tool for programming. However, it can also be used for many practical purposes such as streaming music to several devices in a house. A new starter kit for Raspberry Pi, including a keyboard and mouse, has been released to celebrate the success. The kit also includes an SD storage card, official case, power supply, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard and guidebook -- it costs $130 and will be available in the coming weeks. The Pi, which is manufactured in Wales, has been adopted by pupils, programmers and inventors around the world.
I'm still waiting for the zero.
I got one recently and they're frickin awesome.
I got the official touch screen as well which is really sweet. I expect there will be a bunch of naysayers pointing out how you can get faster/cheaper things which blow the Pi away.
Sure you can, but it's under 30 quid, more than fast enough for what I want and has an excellent user community and documentation. I don't really care about shaving 50% off something already really cheap especially when it will inevitably cost me much more time in even the short term.
Oh also, the kernel provides access to GPIOs in /sys/class/gpio, including select() to wait for edge events. How cool is that? I never knew and that's going to save time screwing around with, well, GPIOs.
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You'll want this bad boy right here http://arm.slackware.com/, and this OMX Remote on your phone.
Silent media player, 1080, NFS mount, remote control. Priceless.
Oh, and the Canadian dollar goes a long way in the UK these days :)
Windows 10 can run on the Pi
You can get like 8 pis with that.
That was the Beatles, I think.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You say that like it's good thing
That's Forevaeah - where the last vowel sound is that weird British thing that's between an Ah and an Eh sound.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
Try putting it in your wallet, I dare you.
It's a special magic version of Windows, it's been cross compiled to the non-x86 CPU, you can't install any actual Windows software on it.
In short - its only use is as an embedded dev platform for organisations that have their head so firmly entrenched in the splenic flexure of Microsoft's colon that they cannot possibly consider using that nasty filthy commie Open Source stuff.
On the official Pi blog page they do specify "sold"
It's only credit-card sized in two dimensions. It's more like a full deck of playing cards in the world most of us inhabit away from the screen.
It's also terrible that they are celebrating their $30 to $35 SBC by selling something triple the price. A starter kit like that often goes for more like $70 near me including the Pi 3. http://www.microcenter.com/sea...
Baloney. It's lots bigger then a credit card!
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Well, if you do buy 8 Raspberry Pi's, you're still going to need:
:)
8 Power Supplies 8 SD cards 8 HDMI cables
And for those of you who think you're clever, and say "Well, I don't need the HDMI cables. I'll just SSH into them.", then you better add 8 CAT 5 network cables and at least one (if not more) 8 port network switch.
I will concede that the user guide in the starter kit is completely unnecessary, though.
So does RISC OS, several BSDs or Plan9. Does this mean this story should be in these OSes categories?
I like my Banana Pi, the SATA is nice, and the board is a bit faster than my Raspberry Pi 2+
However, I would prefer USB 3.0
The interesting thing here is that people are complaining about how the Raspberry Pi operates when used by people who were not its primary customer when it was designed.
When it launched, it was launched, it was done as a teaching system and it has been aimed more at replacing the arduino than PC's, where this is very cost competitive given its vastly greater capabilities.
That is does not have all the functionality of a desktop is not surprising. That is not what it was designed for. But, the low cost is really causing people to think about the system and deploy it in very surprising ways. (We are using them at my place of business in our NOC for all our monitoring systems where more powerful systems are just overkill.)
Define sold though.... did they sell them to the magazine for pennies, where they a straight freebie. They could have been sold in the sense that the magazine purchased them for the same cost of writing a feature article (I doubt anything like that happened though).
In any case, my point was that you can't claim "making it the best selling computer of all time" or "continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever" when you're talking about 9 different models. How many Galaxy phones have been sold? It's just as much if not even more of a "computer" than the Pi. Computer for one is too broad a term. There are microcontrollers that have vastly outsold the Pi. The NES sold like 60+ million units, it's a computer and is much more well-known/popular. If they mean workstation, then I challenge that most Pi's aren't even used with a keyboard. They're mostly in embedded projects and on TVs as a media center.
10 million Pis is a feat, and I'm excited about their success. It's a great product and supported well in it's community. But the claim to be the most popular/best selling computer is wrong.
I'm still looking for a way $15 or less (for each tv) to automate about 25-30 tv's just to switch them on in the morning and off in the evening.
A outlet timer can handle most tv's but a bit less than half won't switch back on when connected to power and need to be manually switched on.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Yeah, but you started only using one of them, right? You wouldn't be buying eight starter kits.
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What are you going to do? Your vibrating buttplug peripheral for the Iphone relied on the 3.5mm jack.
Are they calling the new wireless interface for those choking hazard earphones browntooth? Probably you should rig up a peripheral interface for your Apple buttgadget using that. Apple will probably even license it to you.
Don't know how many British computer manufactures are there? but they wouldn't be competing against dell, hp, lenovo, acer, sony... none of them are British.
You don't need the cat5 cables; RPi3 has WiFi built in. Just use a router and you're all set. Set up your first one with SSH enabled and WiFi enabled for your wireless network. Then, clone the card for the other 7 systems. They should all show up on your WiFi router and you can SSH to them as needed.
I've got 5 RPi's of various generations. I could be accused of being a "Cat Lady" of Raspberry Pis!
To Copy from One is Plagiarism; To Copy from Many is Research.
Yes. That. I am disappointed that Slashdot would put a friggin' Windows logo next to a Raspberry Pi article. Insulting and clueless actually. Let's use the logo of a company that has and continues to try to destroy Open Source and Linux at every possible opportunity.
Microsoft putting a broken special stripped down Windows on the Pi is the fizzle of a "me too!" moment. Like many other things, Microsoft will lose interest in this as soon as a new shiny comes along. Windows on the Pi is too little, too late. Just like Microsoft being late to the mobile devices revolution.
The kind of people likely to anything great with a Pi are probably not using Windows.
Microsoft's adding a Linux personality to Windows 10 is Microsoft's recognition that the developers developers Developers DEVELOPERS they want . . . are on Linux.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Speaking of optional...
The heatsinks sold for SOC are pointless. The original design of these chips was for usage in thin smartphones. No conductive heat distribution is expected to be available in this application.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
They are getting loads of publicity about their Windows 10 that actually transforms the Pi into a vegetable. People will read the articles and think, "I must buy one of these and install Windows 10 on it". Having done so its vegetative qualities under the Windows 10 curse come out in full force and the poor punter has to return it as it "wasn't as good as expected". Then tells all his friends how "rubbish" the Pi is.
Can you point me to a resource to help setting that up??
> I am disappointed that Slashdot would put a friggin' Windows logo next to a Raspberry Pi article
I have one Pi running windows 10 iot. It's perfectly viable platform for Pi.
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That's true, they're all technically/legally Irish. :)
The ZX Spectrum sold 5 million. I think that was probably the previous winner in this category.
I had a Beaglebone Black before, but the Pi3 is my first Pi and I love it. Makes a great server for Octoprint, and will likely monitor my terrarium environment shortly :)
Wasn't that a Prince song?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The RPi is powered off a USB port. You could get away with an 8 port powered USB hub instead of 8 power supplies.
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No. You must be thinking of Blueberry Hill. By Chubby Checker.
Samsung is Korean. Nintendo is Japanese. Dell is USian. Sony is Japanese. HP is USian. Lenovo is Chinese.
When saying it's the best selling UK computer line they are comparing it to Sinclair, Psion, OpenPandora, and other UK companies that make and sell computers.
There's also the Pine64, the CHIP, and the Onion (soon releasing the Onion2). I'm getting hungry just thinking about all the names. I need someone to make a Basil SBC so I can make a Pesto workstation.
...you're still going to need: 8 Power Supplies 8 SD cards 8 HDMI cables
You can buy a single wall plug with 4 USB charging plugs to run 4 Pi's at the same time for about $20 + 4 cheap USB adapter cables.
The latest Raspberry Pi's come with wifi built in.
You can run this setup very cheap and SSH to these boxes. It works. I do it and you can too.
Blob free arm boards, not yet https://www.fsf.org/resources/... , but there will be soon https://www.fsf.org/blogs/lice... . Actually a few can be run blob free if you don't mind sacrificing some features.
Actually I'm a native born US citizen, and you are a presumptuous assbag.