Raspberry Pi - It's Here!

I plan to provide Linux tutorials for those who are new to it, configuration tutorials once the Raspberry Pi is out, and programming tutorials following that.

Cheers,

Liam.

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

I agree that the board is amazing for the price, hence the reason I volunteer for the foundation - running the downloads server and other stuff - basically dedicating my free time to the project. The reason I keep reminding people that it's a little slow is because some people are expecting too much from this board. I never said that it's not worth getting.

[maidbloke]

My best bit was watching Gimp load. More seriously, good to see the RaspPi out in the field and in action at last. Look forward to more.

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

I'm not disappointed with the speed. I'm pointing out it's slow if your thinking of using it like you would a normal desktop pc. I won't be doing that so not disappointed. I was expecting it to be much worse tbh because of earlier videos i've seen. At the end of the day, anything more than being able to program (the goal of the pi) is a bonus.

[Chickenkeeper]

According to the foundation the board will be a lot faster once the firmware bugs have been ironed out (like a problem with the floating point operators that has caused Quake 3 to run a little slower than they have managed to run it in a previous prototype) and when the Fedora Remix has been finished :D

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

You might want to look on the Raspberry Pi wiki for this. I bought a MicroUSB cable and wired it into the power adapter for my usb hub. I use the usb hub for the Pi so makes sense that they use the same plug :)

[seksfibreglass]

it feels like Christmas!!

dig your vids: i just subbed.

Now, I cant wait to see now how the foundation sets up their teaching materials. Not every kid will have geeks for parents who know these things. It has to be simple enough for them to learn on their own AND to keep interest in it.

[BrassZeppelin]

This looks like a very cool little computer. It can do a lot of things that most people use computers for. Basic internet browsing, viewing pictures, watching videos, and listening to music. So really, for the average computer user, this is great and cheap! Now, i mean you'll need an HDMI monitor if you want to use it as your main computer. BUT. I am not your average computer user. I like to take computers and push them to their limits just to see what they can and can't do. So this looks nice!!

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

It's on the to do list... you have to compile it at the moment though so that will take a while. Compiling quake 3 at the moment.

[xcariboulou]

Theoretically, however, if you could find a USB wireless card and patch the kernel to include the drivers, you could run wireless. The other option would be to use a laptop or other device with wireless to bridge the connection to the RPi.

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

Afraid so, I do music production at college so need windows for the software & hardware compatability. Will be switching this laptop to archlinux in the summer and using a windows VM where needed. It's usually VNC'd into a linux box running Debian. That Linux box is currently ssh'd into a Pi running arch, and it's compiling Quake 3 ;)

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

GPU is not being used for desktop rendering at the moment. This is something that's being worked on by the community and should be do-able :). Once that's done, the CPU will be less busy rendering the desktop and it will be faster overall

[choppergirl]

They argue, well, most people already have a SD cards, monitor, keyboard, and mouse laying around for free. Well if you have that laying around, you also have a surplus CPU, you can reformat and put the exact same distros of linux on. No cost, no shipping, no wait, and infinitely more expandable. If you've got all the equipment to connect to a Pi alread, you've already got surplus PCs laying about and you don't need a Pi.

[WillDixonE]

I have watched all your videos and loved all of them!!!! I would like to see XBMC and terminal commands. One other thing I would like to see is what did you do to transfer your files from your computer? Did you use USB hub for more slots or did you upload them online(like you did for your video tutorials) and use wget then unzipped them?

[RaspberryPy]

Great to see that you have your RPi. :)

[nanianmichaels]

So it begins... :D

First of all, I'd like to see the RaspberryPi logo as the desktop background ;) (Heck, it should be the default one!)

Second, is the GPU being used for page/desktop rendering? If not, do you think it will be possible somewhere down the line?

I' liking those boot times, not too bad for a full OS. Also, I'm anxiously waiting for XBMC performance :)

Keep up the great work!

[jacobmarek]

It's how small it is that makes it awesome.

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

There is a specific SD card image for using Qt5 that is created by nokia. It will be up for download soon :). The Raspberry Pi does not come with an SD card, you can either buy one with debian on already, or just buy a normal sd card and install debian yourself.

[cloudie]

keep up the good work Liam following with much interest. Would a gsm dongle work on the pi?

[vootey]

Hey, nice video. I'd love to see a running MythTV session.

[RaspberryPiTutorials]

The fuse module is already loaded on the latest debian image :)