Raspberry Pi

[Churchill]

No, you go ahead and have fun with your new toy. I wonder if you'll get it in time for Christmas?

Which Christmas...?

 

[NickFitz]

There'll be a delay

 

[AtW]

It's also going to produce a very large Linux user base.

 

[Churchill]

Is it not?

 

[AtW]

Is it not?

No, because people who buy this contraption are already either Linux g33ks or the cheapest people on the Planet or both.

HTH

 

[NickFitz]

No, because people who buy this contraption are already either Linux g33ks or the cheapest people on the Planet or both.

HTH

Just like all those Z80 geeks buying Sinclair Spectrums and 6502 geeks buying BBC Micros in the early 80s

 

[Cliphead]

No, because people who buy this contraption are already either Linux g33ks or the cheapest people on the Planet or both.

HTH

It's aimed at school children to get them into programming as well as geeks.

Or maybe you think this is a bad thing and all kids should be equipped with a PC, Visual Studio and a C++ manual?

 

[amcdonald]

Just like all those Z80 geeks buying Sinclair Spectrums and 6502 geeks buying BBC Micros in the early 80s

Or Acorn Electrons if they were real cheapskates

 

[doodab]

There'll be a delay

Sounds like the chinese factory tried to save some money. Doh!

 

[d000hg]

If you want to piss about with Linux use any old £50 laptop. What does it do that a 10 year old laptop doesn't do?

Nothing, which was my initial issue too. However after hearing people talk about it, the idea is that you can use it for a whole host of projects. So think projects rather than pure coding... more like Lego Mindstorm.