News from the Raspberry Pi community
(News and features from other members of the Raspberry Pi homebrew community)
Mer seems to be gathering a little steam. The Spark tablet project is also planned to use it.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com.au/.....swers.html
An ARM based distro that runs on multiple small devices is could build quite a bit of momentum. I am planning to get a Spark for a different but complementary project to my raspberry pi plans. My N900 is waiting on a Mer install too.
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There isn’t much any small group of people can do to address problems like an inadequate school curriculum or the end of a financial bubble. But we felt that we could try to do something about the situation where computers had become so expensive and arcane that programming experimentation on them had to be forbidden by parents; and to find a platform that, like those old home computers, could boot into a programming environment.
Over the next few years, Eben, having left the university for industry, worked on building prototypes of what has now become the Raspberry Pi in his spare time.
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