On 26/03/2012 19:33, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:02:41AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote: >> On 2012-03-26, at 10:08 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >> >>>>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:38:31AM +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote: >>>>>> http://www.redsleeve.org/ >>>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:18:19AM -0700, Christopher Tooley wrote: >>>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/ >>>> >>> >>> As I understand, the raspberry machine does not exist. As reported >>> elsewhere, >>> the first batch of production boards was assembled with a wrong part >>> resulting in non-working ethernet. I did not see any reports of following >>> production batches (fully working or not). >> >> >> While no-one has yet received a pi, I doubt that it's vaporware ;) >> > > "no-one received", "online videos", "founders are demonstrating", "preorder > now" and "available soon" is the definition of vaporware. > > One official vendor is: > http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi > read forum postings observe promised shipping dates in May-June. > > Bottom line is I cannot buy it, you cannot buy it. (For "buy" == it's in my > hands. Not some promise to mail it to me later). > > K.O.
Just to update this, the Raspberry Pi is real and is now shipping. You can now buy it and receive it in your hands. It looks likely to spawn a new generation of ARM-based devices in the same price range. I would have thought that such devices would be an ideal target for SL. -- MarkR PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp Key ID: C9C5C162
