What are its limits?

[piedude1]

So I want a raspberry pi, and wanted to know a few things first. What are its capabilities? Can it run ooVoo or skype, play games like happy wheels, etc. What is it's limit? I know it wont play Skyrim, any other big game, or have huge files, but would I be able to use it for just ooVoo, web browsing, and minigames, and maybe itunes? If I get it, I plan on hooking it up to my soundbar and 3d display. It sounds incredible, but can it do the stuff I mentioned before? Only those things though.

[tonyhughes]

I think you need to read up on this site about what the Raspberry Pi is, and what it isn't.

It isn't a desktop computer replacement, and it doesn't have an x86, x64 or PPC processor, so it certainly won't be running iTunes.

It also does not run Windows.

If you have plans for it that are compatible with RISC OS, Linux, BSD etc, and will play nicely with an ARMv6 CPU clocked at 700-1000MHz, then the Pi is what you are looking for.

[piedude1]

I had my doubts about itunes, and i know what it is. I know it isnt a desktop, but if it had 2 sole purposes, internet and ooVoo, i thought it might work. will oovoo at least work?

[piedude1]

sry i also dont really talk computers, like MHz, although i know its megahurtz, but idk what it does. i just want to know if it can run oovoo.

[tonyhughes]

Find out oovoo's system requirements, then look up the Pi's specifications. If the Pi meets or exceeds them, you may be in business.

I have no idea what oovoo is.

[ghans]

The Pi doesn't run Windows and propably never will.

[rurwin]

oovoo is only available for Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone. The Raspberry Pi is not in that list.

There are chat programs available for the Pi that will inter-work with several IM services, such as AIM, Yahoo, Google, although not Skype.

[piedude1]

Okay. I found out I can't get it. But can the Rpi play online minigames, like happy wheels, bloons tower defence, etc.?

[Gomoto]

Get a 50$ Android stick.

[ghans]

Flash doesn't work on the Pi and never will.

ghans

[aTao]

What are its capabilities?

about 15mm when used as a shim

[piedude1]

Okay. I understand. Can it run an OS or something like android?

[jamesh]

There are a number of OS's on the download page, but basically it can run Linux, RISCOS and Plan9 along with some other bare metal OS's being developed.

[Joe Schmoe]

FWIW, every OS is a "bare metal OS".

[Jim JKla]

It is a very cheap Linux machine running on an Arm processor. At this time we don't really know what it is capable of the whole point of the RPi is to let our younger versions loose on a programmable inexpensive piece of kit and let's just see what they can do in the same way us oldies were let loose on the Spectrum/BBC/Commodore.............

The RPi has been adopted by the geek element that did not go away when Microsoft and Apple stole the show.

The Raspberry has been neatly inserted beneath the roots of these giants and hopefully some of the young ones will nurture it help it and them grow.

[rurwin]

To interpret the question, it can't run Windows or Mac OS/X, and it's early days porting Android to it. So far as I know, that completes the list of OSs.

@James, Joe, I would argue that the bare in bare metal refers to there being no OS. A bare metal program runs on the hardware directly without an OS. There may be a library, and where that library graduates into being an OS is not clear-cut. It may be that people in the bare metal forum are working on OSs, the early work of both being similar.