On 26/03/2012 19:33, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>> On 2012-03-26, at 10:08 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.redsleeve.org/
>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote:
>>>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/
>>>>
>>>
>>> As I understand, the raspberry machine does not exist. As reported elsewhere,
>>> the first batch of production boards was assembled with a wrong part
>>> resulting in non-working ethernet. I did not see any reports of following
>>> production batches (fully working or not).
>>
>>
>> While no-one has yet received a pi, I doubt that it's vaporware ;)
>>
> 
> "no-one received", "online videos", "founders are demonstrating", "preorder now" and "available soon" is the definition of vaporware.
> 
> One official vendor is:
> http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi
> read forum postings observe promised shipping dates in May-June.
> 
> Bottom line is I cannot buy it, you cannot buy it. (For "buy" == it's in my hands. Not some promise to mail it to me later).
> 
> K.O.

Just to update this, the Raspberry Pi is real and is now shipping. You
can now buy it and receive it in your hands.

It looks likely to spawn a new generation of ARM-based devices in the
same price range. I would have thought that such devices would be an
ideal target for SL.

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