[Techtalk] a taste of Raspberry PI

[Miriam English]

No idea. I'm hoping they become available out here in Australia. I have 
a feeling I'll have to order mine online from UK.

I only found out about it accidentally while reading the blog of Barry 
Kauler, the guy who began Puppy Linux, where he mentioned that he'd 
compiled a version of Puppy that runs on RaspberryPi. He must have a 
prerelease board.

(Puppy Linux is a very fast, very small Linux that fits in about 100MB. 
Its standard form is as a bootable CD which can run as is, or installed 
to the hard drive. Its speed and small size, and its special efforts at 
supporting legacy hardware as well as newer architectures makes it 
perfect for older, slower, normally discarded computers. That 100MB 
contains more than just the bare OS, it includes wordprocessor, 
spreadsheet, multimedia player supporting virtually all codecs out of 
the box, easy net connection with web/email/IRC/IM/FTP clients, 
CD/DVD/BluRay burner, and much more. -- please excuse my gushing about 
Puppy. :)

Cheers,

	- Miriam


Michelle Murrain wrote:
> Wow, looks amazing! I want one too! :-)
>
> Any idea how easy it will be to get in the US?
>
> Peace,
> Michelle

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