Linux Embedded
Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi (short: RPi) is a compact (85.60 × 53.98 mm) single-board computer developed in the UK by Raspberry Pi Foundation.The RPi has a Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC), which includes an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor (ARM11 family), Broadcom VideoCore IV GPU, OpenGL ES 2.0, 1080p30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder, and 256 megabytes of memory (SDRAM), shared with GPU.
Raspberry Pi Computer Model B (image courtesy of wikipedia,org)
The RPi does not come with a real-time clock.
The GPU is capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries. Hardware accelerated video (H.264) encoding is not available.
Model B has two USB 2.0 ports via integrated USB hub, and a 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45) port, actually a built-in USB Ethernet adapter. The onboard USB ports are designed for USB devices using one "unit load" (100 mA) of current.
The RPi uses an SD card for booting and long-term storage.
openmamba GNU/Linux rolling (devel) has been fully ported to the Raspberry Pi architecture.Read how you can prepare an SD image for your Raspberry Pi that will boot the latest openmamba image available on the official ftp site (openmamba rootfs light - the light version, with the LXDE graphical environment).
Pidora is a Linux software distribution for the Raspberry Pi computer.
It contains software packages from the Fedora ARM secondary architecture project (compiled for the ARMv6 architecture used on the Raspberry Pi), and software provided by the Raspberry Pi Foudation for device access.
You can found a description of the tests I made.
Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. Raspbian was created by a small, dedicated team of developers that are fans of the Raspberry Pi hardware, the educational goals of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and, of course, the Debian Project.
You can found a description of the tests I made... IN PROGRESS
