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Speaking as the instructor for a class that is using raspberry pis: at this point the most important thing about the raspberry pi is the community and mindshare
by regehr 14y ago
Speaking as the instructor for a class that is using raspberry pis: at this point the most important thing about the raspberry pi is the community and mindshare. It's going to be hard for a new board, however awesome, to replicate this.
- rektide 14y agoI thank you, in the same way I thank Ubuntu for existing: Someone needs to draw away the popular attention from those with the will to get stuff done. If I can re-furl my barbs & continue, if the Cubieboard were taking orders right now it would be a shit show of people coming in from Engadget and HN and all over buying these things up then being extremely aggravated they A) don't just work B) require some fairly serious willingness to chase out the good information on uboot, the sunxi platform, & to get your OS installed: there's not much in the way of authoritative, well compiled references for doing so. I was pretty shocked seeing this board on Engadget today. There've been a steady stream of similar-ish boards, such as the $60 Hackberry, also A10 based, which too is still in "prerelease" form.
- malkia 14y agoDitto. The community, 40,000+ posts, the idea, the talks that's what matters sometimes. There might be 10x more powerful devices in a year or less for the same price, yet they have to gain the same momentum as Pi. And nothing stops the Pi folks from concentrating on these. My understanding is that they (Pi) are not doing it for the money, they simply want kids to learn programming as many of us did back in our Apple ][ prompt, or BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, etc. ] HGR ] HPLOT 10, 10 TO 20, 20