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Raspberry Pi links Wed, Feb 29. 2012

The Raspberry Pi hardware went on sale last night, and as with every other event related to the Pi, pandemonium ensued!

The educational, tech, and mainstream media is starting to take note. Here are some links to local coverage of the Pi and our work on the software for it:

Update 2012-03-03 - additional links:

Radio Canada International - Masala Canada
CBC News - Lang and O'Leary Exchange (segment starts at 47:05)

Update 2012-03-10 - additional links:

MindShare Learning Report - March 2012

To clarify Seneca's involvement, because it may not be clear from the press coverage:

The Raspberry Pi Foundation created the Raspberry Pi hardware, and has licensed its production to a pair of UK-based production and distribution companies, Farnell (which has wordwide subsidiaries including Newark here in Canada) and RS Components (Allied Electronics in Canada).
The Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) within Seneca College works with the Fedora ARM group within the Fedora Project to produce a build of Fedora for ARM devices. One of our roles is the creation and operation of the build system, a cluster of more than 60 ARM-based computers used to build the ARM software.
My research group at CDOT and my Software Build and Release (SBR600) classes at Seneca worked together to produce the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix, which takes the Fedora ARM software and adds a small number of additional software packages needed for use on the Pi. We tested the remix on an alpha (pre-production) board provided by the Foundation.

Information about the Remix may be found on the Seneca CDOT wiki.

Posted by Chris Tyler in CDOT, Fedora, opensource@seneca, Seneca College, Seneca Planet Comments: (2) Trackbacks: (0)

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#1 - Luke 2012-03-03 10:58 - (Reply)

When will the actual download be available for the release? Surely after a few days now the mirrors have all been updated for distribution.

#1.1 - Chris Tyler 2012-03-09 13:01 - (Reply)

It's out now. http://cdot.senecac.on.ca/rasbperrypi

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