Seneca College and the Raspberry Pi.

[William Park]

You gotta give us a demo some time.
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William



----- Original Message -----
> From: Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> To: tlug <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:19:17 AM
> Subject: [TLUG]: Seneca College and the Raspberry Pi.
> 
> I trust most of the folks here have been following the story of the
> Raspberry Pi, a $35 (or $25 depending on model) Linux running computer
> designed in the UK. Here is a short video about what Seneca College is
> doing about the Raspberry Pi :
> 
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/676
> 
> Bottom line, Seneca College will have a release of Fedora Linux
> available for download to a 2+ GB SD memory card when the Raspberry Pi
> starts shipping (hopefully within a week). There will be room for
> improvement with the initial Fedora release that Seneca College does,
> like the initial release will NOT take advantage of the video graphics
> acceleration hardware on the Raspberry Pi (ie:  video will work, but
> slowly (a possible issue for me, as the first job I want to see a
> Raspberry Pi in is video related)).
> 
> Still, imperfect as the initial release may be, this is great news as
> it means the Raspberry Pi will at launch will have enough software to
> get up and at least crawling. Also, nice to see a greater Toronto area
> institution getting some very positive PR in the open source
> community.
> 
> 
> Colin McGregor
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