The Raspberry Pi is Very Cool

Got the Raspberry Pi yesterday. Today I got the Linux image onto the SD
card using Win32DiskImager which was a piece of cake. Plugged in a USB
keyboard & mouse, and a $3 800 mA 5V power supply and hooked it to an
HDMI TV. Booted right up.

I think the down side is that it supports only composite video and HDMI
so you can't use a cheap, spare, VGA monitor. I bought a 15" TV with an
HDMI port at Fry's for $69 when it was on sale last week
<http://sigmacusa.com/images/usermanual_LE15AB.pdf> and one advantage of
using an HDMI TV is that audio is also sent over the HDMI interface so
that's one less cable to deal with as well as no need for separate speakers.

 

Le 11/08/2012 02:59, sms88 a écrit :

You could also use a HDMI <=> DVI cable.
I find the Raspberry very well, but
It's slooooow ( especialy if you use the graphical screen )
It lack many things like
when using Debian, you can't redirect the display onto another computer,
when using Fedora, it contains all the bugs known and more that Fedora has.
When using raspian, it lakc many drivers for camera BTW.
....
But I will use it in a progect tha I have where it will be very useful.

André

 

That's the key thing, there are certain projects where the speed doesn't
matter but where it's practical to have an OS like Linux running rather
than using an embedded OS or no OS. I've only tried Wheezy so far.

The $35 price point is pretty good, though there's really no reason it
should cost that much in mass production since there's only about $8
worth of components on it. $25 would be more reasonable.