Kent Borg wrote: > ...this little beast is nearly wide open. (Okay, the Broadcom chip > is not publicly documented and binary blobs are needed to use much of > it, but still...)
The proprietary nature of the Pi is still its most significant drawback. A practical example of that limitation is the lack of an Android build for the Pi. OpenBSD is also not available[1]. (Though other BSDs are[2].) There are other Pi clones[3] that are more open. And other boards[4] with similar functionality, but Pi is more popular and has a larger support community than just about anything. -Tom 1. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132788027403910&w=2 2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/netbsd-is-here/ 3. http://www.bananapi.org/ 4. http://beagleboard.org/ -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA "Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting." http://www.theperlshop.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
