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Answer» Interesting... Since its release in 2012, the original Raspberry Pi has been used to build everything from aerial drones to beer fermentation systems to supercomputers. Microsoft wants in on this mini-revolution. And this could lead to bigger things.DIY Beer Project? No GUI, just a kernel compiled for ARM, as far as I can make out. Command line only. Like a Windows version of embedded Linux like you find in routers, NAS drives etc. Quote from: Salmon Trout on February 03, 2015, 03:55:00 PM No GUI, just a kernel compiled for ARM, as far as I can make out. Command line only. Like a Windows version of embedded Linux like you find in routers, NAS drives etc.True. But even routers with tiny OS can show an attractive page like simple HTML in a browser. Might be a useful tablet for web browsing. Maybe some video. The story is going around. Just founds these: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-03-faster-windows-10-compatible-raspberry-pi-2-released http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/raspberry-pi-2-quad-core-hands-on-and-unboxing-02-02-2015/ http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2393354/raspberry-pi-2-hands-on-review-video Very interesting. Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 03, 2015, 09:06:33 PM But even routers with tiny OS can show an attractive page like simple HTML in a browser. Might be a useful tablet for web browsing. Maybe some video. I don't know how much of that will be possible with the cut-down remnant of Windows 10 that the free version will be. It's a shame nobody developed any Linux distros that provided Pi users with web browsing, video playing at 1080p, video streaming, NAS and server functions, etc. Even maybe high altitude robot camera balloons? Oh. Er, wait.... Yeah, I was wondering about that. But apparently it can. Look at this: Quote The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi That article is about the prior release! The new one is a four-core ARM chip. So, this has the potential of being sold for about the price of a Chrome cast or Roku device and functioning as a mini desktop PC. Plug it in the HDMI and add keyboard and mouse. Maybe a external HDD and printer. Quote from: Geek-9pm on February 04, 2015, 12:27:41 PM That article is about the prior release!Yes, the new chip is a quad ARM 7 while the old is a single core ARM 11, also at 1 GB of RAM it has twice the memory of the previous Raspberry Pi models and 4 times the original Model A. The point I was making is that the new Raspberry Pi 2 is 100 percent software compatible with the earlier models, which themselves were perfectly capable of web browsing and playing HD (1080p) video. The version of Windows 10 being made free is a stripped down version targeted at Internet-of-things developers, so expect to see it running gadgets. Nobody should expect to see a full-fledged GUI operating system like the Windows you see on tablets and desktop and laptop PCs. I can't argue with your logic. But let me remind you of what you already know. The minimum requirements for Windows XP. Quote Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)Current ATM devices outperform older Pentium CPUs. By those standards, the raspberry Pi should be able to support an install of Windows XP, it it were an Intel device and not an ARM. The needed HDD space could be on an external drive. My point is this: It is really hard to estimate how well a new design can scale up or down. Especially microprocessors. The ARM 7 family has been very well deployed in a number of devices. The iPad. Game boy. Sirius Satellite Radio receivers. Dreamcast. And lots of other stuff. Because the ARM is custom made for an application, it is hard to guess at the limitations. The new model had input from Microsoft. It just my be better than what you would guess. Here is what I think. If a Raspberry package with keyboard and power supply can sell for under $100 with Windows, it will outperform and outsell tablets selling for twice the price. Time will tell. Geek, I am not arguing with you about the power of the Arm7! I am just saying it ain't going to get a full featured Windows 10 OS that is like a PC version of Windows. Every already knows that even the older Pis can run a GUI-heavy OS like Fedora or Gentoo, or FreeBSD (true Unix some say!) so the A7 in the Pi2 is certainly a cpu comparable in capability to one that could run a 14 year old OS WHOSE development STARTED in the 1990s like Windows XP was. Right! It should run an old OS with no issue. If somebody will port the code. But why did MS endorse the new Raspberry Pi? Well, maybe they just want a presence, not really port real windows to a exterminate handheld device. Life hacker has picked up the story. http://lifehacker.com/the-operating-systems-updated-for-the-raspberry-pi-2-s-1683514788 The Operating Systems Updated for the Raspberry Pi 2 (So Far) Quote The Raspberry Pi 2 was released yesterday and it comes packed with a new SoC ** that requires a little tweaking to get operating systems to work with it. So, we decided to dig in and see what operating systems have added support already.The article says there are five OS that do run on it now. But I have never heard of any of then except Debian. **SoC A system on a chip or system on chip (SoC or SOC) is an integrated circuit (IC) that integrates all components of a computer or other ELECTRONIC system into a single chip. |
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