<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">The $35 Raspberry Pi Model B, which is the size of a credit card and runs on open-source software developed at Toronto's Seneca College, became available for pre-order at 1 a.m. ET Wednesday from British manufacturers and distributors Premier Farnell and RS Components."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">from <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi</a> :<br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 19px; ">Software</span><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><div style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">On 19 February 2012 the Raspberry Pi Foundation released its first proof of concept SD Card image that can be loaded onto an SD Card to produce a preliminary operating system. The image is based upon <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian" title="Debian" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Debian</a> 6.0 (Squeeze), with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXDE" title="LXDE" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">LXDE</a> desktop and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_browser" title="Midori browser" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Midori browser</a>, plus various
programming tools. The image can also run on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU" title="QEMU" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">QEMU</a>allowing the Raspberry Pi to be emulated on various other platforms.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>57<span>]</span></a></sup></div><div
style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a version of Fedora,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>58<span>]</span></a></sup> developed at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_College" title="Seneca College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Seneca College</a> in Canada,<sup id="cite_ref-cbc_58-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-cbc-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>59<span>]</span></a></sup> later. The Foundation intends to create an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store" title="App Store" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial
initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">App Store</a> website for people to exchange programs.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_classroom_coders_59-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#cite_note-bbc_classroom_coders-59" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>60<span>]</span></a></sup></div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">Furthermore; Fedora was not developed at Seneca
College... Maybe it's best to advise CBC...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">Regards,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; ">Burhan</span></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Colin McGregor <colin.mc151@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> tlug <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 1, 2012 4:33:01 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [TLUG]: CBC News and the Raspberry Pi<br> </font> </div> <br>The CBC has a story about the Raspberry Pi :<br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/03/01/technology-raspberry-pi-launch.html" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/03/01/technology-raspberry-pi-launch.html</a><br>. Seems the first batch of 10,000 machines sold out in under 2.5<br>hours...<br><br>I want one...<br><br><br>Colin<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://gtalug.org/" target="_blank">http://gtalug.org/</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>How to
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