My RaspberryPi is due the 12th according to Farnell.
Fedora is the community edition as it were where the technology that RedHat
uses gets tested first!
I've already got a few bits of hardware ready an Arduino clone for I/O
expansion called a Piduino and a MoPi which is an out and out dev board for the
RaspberryPi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u5c1Dfaf57g
http://shropshirelug.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/mopi-a-prototype-board-for-raspberrypi/
Take alook at the video shown at the Last Shropshire Linux user Group (SLUG) on
PCB manufacture
http://shropshirelug.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/review-of-february-2012-meeting-11/
John A
--- On Mon, 5/3/12, Norman Dunbar<nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote:
From: Norman Dunbar<nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] RaspberryPi
To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Date: Monday, 5 March, 2012, 11:59
Morning Malcolm,
I thought that you would one the first 'Rpi" owners ... :-)
No, I'm afraid not. There are 10,000 lucky owners but I'm not one of them. I
need my sleep too much to be setting alarms to get up at 05:45!
I have not heard of Fedora Linux ... though I guess it not a hat?
Close, very close. Red Hat is, if you like, the parent company, They produce
Red Hat Enterprise Linux but used to produce a community version called Red Hat
Linux. They stick to RHEL these days and are (or are about to be) the first
open source company to break the $1 billion income mark. They charge for
support and give the product away for free.
Fedora is the community version - Red Hat Linux as was. New stuff usually hits
Fedora first before it rolls out in RHEL.
Both are, indeed, hat related!
Of course, it you ned or want an enterprise level Linux for free, you simply
get Centos or Scientific Linux which are RHEL with the Red Hat badges removed.
It's all legal under the terms of the license.
Development tools ... yes, but what actual software or 'apps' are
already around to make it immediately usable?
Too much to mention. When you install a Linux "distro" you get tens of
thousands of apps thrown in for free and there are many more that may not be included in
the distro, but are available elsewhere.
CAD tools, compilers for just about every language under the sun, development
environments, games, science stuff, astronomy, games, deocumentation tools, DVD
players, CD players, MP3, Video editing, sound recording& editing, text
editors, whole office suites, - everything.
Compare with Windows and Minsweeper or Solitare! ;-)
I specialised in control and electronics and all the 'new technology'
stuff, so was always being creative.
I put together a 555 timer in astable mode this weekend on a breadboard looking
for a square wave generator. I wanted to use it to switch on another circuit,
then off again at regular intervals. How hard could it be? I got an always on
LED! Sigh! It's far simpler with Arduino!
Schools have mirrored and followed almost exactly all of the previous
mistakes that industry first followed.
Have they mirrored or have they been pushed in that direction by politicians
and other do-gooders with an agenda?
Cheers,
Norm.
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