Anyone thought about raspberry pie?

[Robert cole]

I heard about the Raspberry Pi probably six months ago (estimating) on 
the Linux Action Show. If I am able, I definitely want to pick one (or 
more) up when they are shipped in cases.

It is definitely something worth looking into.

I told my wife (who doesn't know much about tech) that I was going to 
buy a Raspberry Pi, and she said, "Why do you want to eat a raspberry 
pie?" I love getting her with tech things like that. <smile>

On 02/21/2012 08:32 AM, John Heim wrote:
> Speakup works on the Geode by NSC.  That's the chip in my Soekris 4801.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" 
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> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone thought about raspberry pie?
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> I think you are a bit to optomistic. Because speakup works on Debian or
> arch doesn't mean that it'll work on arm. It's a different architecture.
> Just figured I'd throw that out there.
> On 2/20/2012 5:52 PM, Kyle wrote:
>> From the website:
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>> What Linux distros will be supported at launch?
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>> Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We 
>> hope to see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with 
>> newer releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu 
>> can’t commit to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able 
>> to download distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is 
>> released, and we will also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly 
>> after release.
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>> So if Arch and Debian are supported, Speakup modules or kernels 
>> compiled with Speakup should run without issues. Some software speech 
>> synthesizers may have memory issues, but eSpeak is sure to run, as it 
>> has an extremely low memory requirement.
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>> On a side note, I really want one of these things , and will likely 
>> purchase one once the cases are available. Then I can try to get 
>> Talking Arch running on it. I also wonder how easy it would be to get 
>> bluetooth running on something like this. It looks like it would pair 
>> well with a bluetooth keyboard and become a nice little portable 
>> computer. This looks more and more like a fun little project to work 
>> on for very little money. And with the right software, it will work 
>> better than most of those notetaker thingies that still cost 100 
>> times as much as this baby, and that some people still buy for some 
>> reason. Smile.
>> ~Kyle
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