PC at Price of Textbook
There is growing interest surrounding the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their promise of a PC that will cost just $25. We have seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing countries, and yet Raspberry Pi is confident in delivering the $25 PC by November 2011. Eben Upton, director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, explained that the $25 price point was decided upon because it is the cost of a textbook so it made sense. The foundation has also realized that the $35 PC with more RAM and a network port is going to be the most popular device by a significant margin. Something we did not realize is that Raspberry Pi not only intend to make this PC work through a HDMI and DVI connection, they also want it plugged into old analog TVs just like kids managed with in the 80s. It also means you do not need an up-to-date display in order to start playing with this device.
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/why-a-25-pc-because-its-the-price-of-a-textbook-2011091/
Raspberry Pi
Game developer David Braben has developed a tiny USB stick PC, Raspberry Pi, that has a HDMI port in one end and a USB port on the other. You plug it into a HDMI socket and then connect a keyboard via the USB port giving you a fully functioning machine running a version of Linux. The cost? USD 25. It uses a 700MHz ARM11 processor coupled with 128MB of RAM and runs OpenGL ES 2.0 allowing for decent graphics performance with 1080p output confirmed. Storage is catered for by an SD card slot. It also looks as though modules can be attached such as the 12MP camera seen in the image above. We can expect it to run a range of Linux distributions, but it looks like Ubuntu may be the distro it ships with. That means it will handle web browsing, run office applications, and give the user a fully functional computer to play with as soon as it is plugged in. All that and it can be carried in your pocket or on a key chain.
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/game-developer-david-braben-creates-a-usb-stick-pc-for-25-2011055/
Linux App Store
Developers of popular Linux distros --Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse, and Mandriva-- convened a mini-conference in Germany to plan a shared Linux application service. The idea of the conference was to talk about defining APIs to share, to discuss interchange formats, and talking to the UI designers to make installing and removing software on Linux suck less.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/packagekit/2011-January/006146.html
Linux Radio
Linux Radio is an online radio broadcasting the latest stable version of the Linux kernel, which is read in plain voice using eSpeak, an open source text to speech synthesizer. There are currently 111,011 tunes in our database and we are working to add more. A new source file is selected randomly each time you load this page.
Ubuntu: Perfect Consumer Operating System?
The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is on the way and with its new theme, looks simply stunning. With an online music store built in, integrated cloud backup services and a strong focus on social networking, could this finally be the release consumers have been waiting for? Ubuntu 10.04 appears to achieve what no distro has done yet: near perfect integration. This looks like a highly professional, sleek, commercial grade operating system. Whatever Mark Shuttleworth has been doing in his new role, keep doing it, because this release looks to be the best ever.
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