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Posted: Wed 26 Oct 2011, 11:35
by Lobster
this is painfull!!!
You'll survive
I would look into the ARM emulation options
and see how much preparation is possible . . .
Posted: Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:18
by Bert
darkcity wrote:I can make it 6th Nov but not for a few days.
from the
wiki:
Availability
Estimated availability (as of 25th October 2011) is December 2011. Initially, there will be shipping from the UK and possibly the US, but will probably expand with local distributors by the second quarter of 2012.
Posted: Wed 26 Oct 2011, 19:52
by qkall
yeah you guys got me all hot and bothered about nov 6! jerks.
Posted: Wed 26 Oct 2011, 23:28
by Lobster
Estimated availability (as of 25th October 2011) is December 2011
That is my understanding as the expected/earliest possibility.
You can follow them on twitter (Puppy 5.3 has a ready made cloud feature for twitter - see Slickpet)
search for
Raspberry_Pi on twitter
Does anyone know if Ångström intend to build for Pi (a bootstrapping option)?
http://narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org/
What is the current status of KISS AmigoLinux from Amigo?
This has some plans for ARM I believe?
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 891#380069
puppy is in !
Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 02:53
by raffy
Guess what, Puppy is in, see
Liz' comment.
[quote]
Raffy Mananghaya on October 28, 2011 at 11:18 pm said:
Congratulations!
Of course the Puppy Linux community’s tail is wagging at your references to Eben as “bushy tailed
Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 05:45
by technosaurus
I was a little skeptical before, but now that I know Liz is a fan of They Might Be Giants...
there has to be a howto for turning a usb cable and an rca dongle into a makeshift usb monitor using any tv with an rca input
Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2011, 06:15
by Lobster
i suggest a puppy with a raspberry pi logo as the nose!
I tried that. Also tried it on the eye - it was good for Halloween, but too scary for nooby. At least one real artist (as opposed to the claw fisted moi) is working on a logo/wallpaper . . .
Have you set up server software yet?
You could use Wikka 1.3.2 and then the existing wiki page would be easy to mirror and eventually lead to independence . . .
http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage
My plan is a PARM matchbox device, with rechargeable batteries.
. . . you might want to power a robot . . . or develop an in car device . . .
Eventually we will be able run a server from an ARM smartphone . . .
On x86 we have to support a variety of hardware (that will continue - I want a Puppy 64bit and Wary etc)
Pi means support for one processor, one multimedia device
That is a start
What is being done here is different.
With the right price and feature set, we will commit to a device.
The tablet and mobile market is volatile, at the moment there would be no consensus of developers and testers/users.
With Pi we have developers and users practically rabid with anticipation . . .
Even the more cautious are coming around . . .
We are going right back to the hardware.
Fun for the whole kennel
Puppy Linux
We do
Posted: Sun 30 Oct 2011, 17:16
by darkcity
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 17:17
by qkall
Lobster wrote:
Have you set up server software yet?
You could use Wikka 1.3.2 and then the existing wiki page would be easy to mirror and eventually lead to independence . . .
http://wikkawiki.org/HomePage
is this directed towards me? if so i haven't (honestly thought i was getting ignored on that.. figured you guys must of already had some sort of server room), but i can... i have the option to easily install (clicking with fantastico) tikiWiki CMS/Groupware & PhpWiki. but if you prefer wikka i can as well just might take me a bit to either figure it out or let the host do it for me (he's a nice dude and will probably do it for me).
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 17:59
by stu90
Sounds pretty cool - could have it hooked up to a HDTV with a nice looking Conky Lua with weather, time, RSS and use it as a internet radio player or big picture frame etc.
Wonder if you could use one of these with it?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rii-Mini-i6-2 ... 3f0d68e038
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 18:09
by qkall
stu90 wrote:Sounds pretty cool - could have it hooked up to a HDTV with a nice looking Conky Lua with weather, time, RSS and use it as a internet radio player or big picture frame etc.
Wonder if you could use one of these with it?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rii-Mini-i6-2 ... 3f0d68e038
i was looking for one of these for my pi as well actually... well the older model i think... and they say they're linux compatible (and list older releases) so.. i don't see any reason it wouldn't work (unless the pi kernel will need patch with whatever modules)
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 19:10
by Lobster
is this directed towards me?
Yes indeed.
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 19:27
by qkall
okay woudl you prefer using wikka or are the other two options viable? haven't used any of them so lol.
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 20:47
by Lobster
I'd prefer the wikka wiki
howto
Posted: Mon 31 Oct 2011, 23:45
by raffy
technosaurus wrote:I was a little skeptical before..
there has to be a howto for turning a usb cable and an rca dongle into a makeshift usb monitor using any tv with an rca input
What I know is that the R-Pi is TV-ready (has HDMI, too).
Or perhaps I did not understand the pun?
Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 00:43
by technosaurus
I never saw anything about rca out, but many older/cheaper TVs have an rca input but no hdmi ... the big issue there would be fixing the various GUIs to work at such a low resolution.
Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 01:16
by Geoffrey
stu90 wrote:Sounds pretty cool - could have it hooked up to a HDTV with a nice looking Conky Lua with weather, time, RSS and use it as a internet radio player or big picture frame etc.
Wonder if you could use one of these with it?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rii-Mini-i6-2 ... 3f0d68e038
You can get a similar thing here in Oz
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/DGTEC-NEW-DG ... 415ed008f3
Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 04:50
by technosaurus
Posted: Tue 01 Nov 2011, 17:43
by darkcity
technosaurus wrote:I never saw anything about rca out, but many older/cheaper TVs have an rca input but no hdmi ... the big issue there would be fixing the various GUIs to work at such a low resolution.
according to the wiki your all good.
http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#Disp ... ut_Options
VGA monitors are the big no no
Posted: Thu 03 Nov 2011, 00:08
by don570
I followed a link at the raspberry site and found this....
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BootRom
The boards do not include NAND or NOR storage - everything is on the
SD card, which has a FAT32 partition with GPU firmware and a kernel
image, and an EXT2 partition with the rootfs.
We're not currently using a bootloader - we actually boot via the GPU,
which contains a proprietary RISC core (wacky architecture ;) .
The GPU mounts the SD card, loads GPU firmware and brings up
display/video/3d, loads a kernel image, resets the SD card host
and starts the ARM.
You could replace the kernel image with a bootloader image, and that
would work fine.
It appears that someone with knowledge of machine code
will have to write a bootmanager.
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