On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Mark Rousell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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.

Not likely. SL is a rebuild of an upstream vendor's industry class server OS.  If our favorite upstream vendor goes there, then that could happen. But if you look at Fedora as the leading edge of what that vendor plans for the next generation, I see no major pursuit of ARM in the next major release. Do you?