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| Authored by: betajet on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 01:00 AM EDT |
| I have a RasPi. I ordered on 4 March 2012 from Newark/element14 and received it
mid-June. It works quite well, amazingly so for the price. It's a little slow,
but that should improve as device drivers improve. As with many Razzers, I had
some challenges powering it but they're overcome. Also, it runs hotter than I
had expected, but I was able to mitigate.
According to the "Contact Us" tab
at raspberrypi.org you should
e-mail forum@raspberrypi.org if you're having trouble logging onto the
forum. It may be that their spam filter has tripped and they need to add your
login to the "white list".
There are a number of RasPi sites in addition to
the official one: see the RasPi Wiki.
I like the element14 one
-- there are some highly knowledgeable EEs who hang out there so it's a good
place to discuss hardware issues. It's also a good place to discuss things that
might raise hackles at raspberrypi.org.
I have found people to be very
helpful in both the official forum and element14, as long as you ask politely. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 06:06 AM EDT |
There are two suppliers of the Raspi, Farnell-Element 14 and Radiospares. I have
been using mine from Element 14 for several days.
Don't get a preloaded SD Card. I bought three 16GB microSD cards with SD
converters and four 4MB cards (all Kingston, Class 4) and have had no problems
burning the .img images on the card. I even back up each card using a similar
process;
sudo dd bs=1M if=debian6-19-04-2012.img of=/dev/sdb
Don't forget to resize the main partitions to make full use of the SD capacity.
I suggest Raspbian which is a lovely GUI thing rather than the ArchLinux and
Debian official distributions. It uses the latest Debian release. I have also
got AEROS, which is the AROS Amigan OS for the Raspi.
I spend most of my time with apt-get_upgrade atm; it is a good reminder that an
Atom is a supercomputer compared with the Raspi at its current level of Linux
optimisation.
I cannot get over a responsive 1920x1080 screen from a computer the size of a
packet of cigarettes (not that I really remember how large that is).
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 06:59 PM EDT |
Replying to these good comments.
I have emailed the forum but so far no reply. I wonder though, if I am locked
out by spamfighter, how does it allow me in to the email inbox?
I have yet to install an the OS on the 8GB SD cards I bought. I will look at the
Raspbian & Aeros.
I see Element 14 are now accepting multiple orders for RP with delivery in early
August that's as soon as I might get the one I ordered a month ago![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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