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by **AndyD** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:47 am

First Steps with the Raspberry Pi
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120603051148201/RaspberryPi-Introduction.html

by **liz** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:12 pm

http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/pl ... dia-centre
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/opinion/21823 ... per-skills
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opi ... ctor-boost
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis ... d-teachers
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/web-design ... -10026311/

by **liz** » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:14 pm

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops ... odelb.aspx

by **aotto2012** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 10:06 am

After the first read of this German article I thought the author didn't quite understand what the idea behind the Raspberry Pi is. However, after a second read I think the article is a good description about what is currently possible with the Raspberry Pi. The author also mentions how users of qwertz-keyboards can login - something which might frustrate neewbies at the very beginning.

http://heise.de/-1573973

by **silent__thought** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:42 pm

Storing your Raspberry Pi configuration files in Git.

by **alexeames** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:34 am

New BBC vid Raspberry Pi: Primary school children get coding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18301670

by **liz** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:53 am

5* review from Expert Reviews

The Cambridge Evening News thinks that Eben is "one to watch" (I'll say)

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news-analysis/2162851/raspberry-pi-imaginations-schoolchildren

by **AndrewS** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:25 pm

You've managed to duplicate the URL of the second link onto your 3rd link Liz.
Feel free to delete this post after correcting it

by **liz** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:59 pm

Good catch; thank you!

by **liz** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:10 pm

The Register: Raspberry Pi-powered drones for disaster relief. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12 ... _pi_drone/

by **jamesh** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:46 pm

liz wrote:The Register: Raspberry Pi-powered drones for disaster relief. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/12 ... _pi_drone/

With the obligatory snide comment from regular commentator Lee Dowling. He really seems to have a bee somewhere in that bonnet.

by **liz** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:47 pm

I've noticed.

My heart sinks on seeing certain logins on certain sites. There's this guy on the Reg, and my personal favourite at the moment is a guy on Wikipedia who keeps on adding a bunch of unsourced, closed-source-GPU rage to the first para of the Raspberry Pi article there, too (a large number other editors keep removing it - for NPOV reasons I've steered well clear - but he's amazingly persistent).

by **liz** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:33 pm

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/education/3 ... ry-student

Eben, busy antagonising one of my childhood heroes. (Does anyone else still own their Fighting Fantasy books?)

by **liz** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:37 pm

And another story from the same event: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/op ... hing-82212

by **alexeames** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:33 am

Another BBC mention. Linus Torvalds interview...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18419231

The recent launch of the Raspberry Pi, running on Linux, has attracted a lot of attention. Are you hopeful it will inspire another generation of programmers who can contribute to the Linux kernel?

So I personally come from a "tinkering with computers" background, and yes, as a result I find things like Raspberry Pi to be an important thing: trying to make it possible for a wider group of people to tinker with computers and just playing around.

And making the computers cheap enough that you really can not only afford the hardware at a big scale, but perhaps more important, also "afford failure".

By that I mean that I suspect a lot of them will go to kids who play with them a bit, but then decide that they just can't care.

But that's OK. If it's cheap enough, you can afford to have a lot of "don't cares" if then every once in a while you end up triggering even a fairly rare "do care" case.

So I actually think that if you make these kinds of platforms cheap enough - really "throw-away cheap" in a sense - the fact that you can be wasteful can be a good thing, if it means that you will reach a few kids you wouldn't otherwise have reached.

by **liz** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:10 pm

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2184058/ ... ns-throats

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-te ... -40155372/

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news ... ary-school

by **liz** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:33 pm

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/review/218406 ... -pi-review

by **liz** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:34 pm

http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/ra ... ake-47836/ <- Tom's Hardware France on how to make Quake 3 go.

by **AndrewS** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:35 pm

Why are so many online articles, such as this one:

liz wrote:http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2183999/raspberry-pi-marks-secondary-school

still using images of the old beta board? Might this confuse people when the RPi they receive looks different to the one they've been seeing in all the articles they've been reading? (the big give-away is the colour of the audio and video connectors)
Maybe it'd be worth putting together a "Press Pack" of clean high-quality images of the current version of the RPi board? :idea:

(just answered my own question :oops:

- it's the image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs )

by **alexeames** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:32 pm

AndrewS wrote:Why are so many online articles, such as this one:
liz wrote:http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2183999/raspberry-pi-marks-secondary-school
still using images of the old beta board?

LOL I had the exact same thought when I saw the Torvalds interview on BBC site this morning.

AndrewS wrote:Maybe it'd be worth putting together a "Press Pack" of clean high-quality images of the current version of the RPi board?

(just answered my own question - it's the image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs )

Feel free to use mine if you go down this route and they are suitable (links in sig).

If you want something specific shooting, I'm also willing to have a go.

by **Lakes** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:15 am

PCPro Shock Headline!

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/education/375106/founder-no-raspberry-pi-for-every-student

by **Crashedfiesta** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:24 am

AndrewS wrote:Why are so many online articles, such as this one:
liz wrote:http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/news/2183999/raspberry-pi-marks-secondary-school
still using images of the old beta board?

At least it's a Pi. The 'expert review' picture isn't even the right device (certainly not like any images I've seen of the Pi).

by **AndrewS** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:30 am

Crashedfiesta wrote:At least it's a Pi. The 'expert review' picture isn't even the right device (certainly not like any images I've seen of the Pi).

I'd missed that link. Just tried reading it now but had to give up due to all the crappy adverts

That's a picture of one of the Alpha boards http://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory

by **Crashedfiesta** » Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:38 pm

AndrewS wrote:That's a picture of one of the Alpha boards http://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory

Ah, so it is.

by **peba** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:14 pm

A german book on the Raspberry Pi:
http://bitkistl.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/ ... ry-pi.html

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