Raspberry Pi

[hikaricloud]

I just put all my music on every computer but thats me.

Having a little mini media center would be cool though. I have a radio antenna that you hook up to a computer and whenever you run a playlist through any sort of music player instead of playing through the speakers on the computer, it plays through a radio channel

Do you know if they ever got puppy linux working on the pi's?

Looks like it, but I don't know the full extent yet:

PuppyLinux: Puppy School - RaspberryPi

 

[jreidsma]

Says that a beta will be released soon

I may have to read up more on the rpi's, sounds like a lot more has come out for them

 

[UsernameTaken]

is it really that viable as an emulator/HTPC?

 

[hikaricloud]

is it really that viable as an emulator/HTPC?

It really is, works great as an HTPC for me. There's a little lag now and then (700mhz CPU) depending on the skin in XBMC (OpenELEC, Raspbmc, and Xbian all), but it plays media beautifully.

 

[carnageX]

I'm tempted to get one but would hate the wait lol. If I get one though, I'm thinking of making it into a portable pen-testing box with PwnPi.

 

[UsernameTaken]

It really is, works great as an HTPC for me. There's a little lag now and then (700mhz CPU) depending on the skin in XBMC (OpenELEC, Raspbmc, and Xbian all), but it plays media beautifully.

well i'm sold then, are they still having supply issues?

 

[Jayce]

well i'm sold then, are they still having supply issues?

I don't believe so. I haven't ordered any recently but I was in the raspberrypi IRC channel and someone there indicated they received their R-Pi after a 7 day wait, which had taken place only days prior.

I certainly love my R-Pi's. It's interesting to further test my command line knowledge with GUI-less distros, full well knowing if I blow anything up it's actually perfectly fine. I often power it down and run a quick DD on my 16GB SD card that I utilize for the Pi, that way I can easily retrieve my image back.

These boxes sure do have limitations, but dang they can do a lot with minimal energy considering their price tag. I remember when I got into my first real IT job... It was only 2008, and to my surprise I walked into a lab of computers at this elementary school. Pentium 3 700MHz, 128MB RAM, etc. I remember being blown away at how much power they were using as per my kill-a-watt. Sure the particular R-Pi I have is the 700MHz 256MB RAM variant (twice the RAM of those P3 rigs), but dang it's so much more capable.

 

[hikaricloud]

well i'm sold then, are they still having supply issues?

Not too terrible, around Christmas is was a little wonky but should be fine now. I got mine from MCM.

 

[danhodge]

I'm interested in getting a Raspberry Pi, but less for any specific use - and more for playing around with it.
For example, people have used it to program a robot arm to move by the use of speech recognition or a PS3 controller. Another cool thing was someone made a 'Raspberry Rover'. You could literally program your remote control car to do whatever you want...

 

[carnageX]

Anybody know if its possible to remote into the RPi over Bluetooth?