>>>Was wondering if anyone out here got a Raspberry PI...
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http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs>>>
>>>On my never-ending quest to be the king of all cheapskates (ask any girl I've ever dated..haha) I was considering getting one of these.
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>>A colleague has had one on order since day one - hasn't arrived yet.
>>I fancied getting, say, a 100 of them and building the parallel processor from hell......
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>It's ARM-based and won't run Windows, so if you're contemplating something like that it's
de rigeur to muse out loud about building a Beowulf cluster of them :)
I see there are a few flavours of Linux available. But to have fun at that level it would probably be back to assembler code anyway.
Unrelated, I read that a Chrome OS build will be available soon......