Farnell did take note of the pre-order: I've just had an email asking me to confirm an order. I've just put one in for 30 days delivery ...
A work colleague has also added me to a list he's putting together - this means I might get two :(
Torrent was running at 5.90 sharing ratio a couple of days ago when I stopped it. It's now running at 1.4 share ratio - there's a lot of interest
I put up most of the Debian AMD64 DVDs plus a couple of netinsts at the same time - only a couple of those have reached 1.0 share ratio or better and been deleted.
UPDATE - Using instructions on how to run the image in QEMU, I have managed to get the basic Debian image meant for the RaspberryPI to run on my small i686 laptop.
Well done to the folks at the University of Cambridge who've been using this as a development distribution: Fedora from University of Toronto will follow.
LXDE, compilers - and all running in 256M :)
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Monday, 27 February 2012
Raspberry Pi - announcement
_Something_ is going to happen at 06:00 GMT on 29th February. I predict a server meltdown ..
==
Product available from RS Components and Farnell.com - both servers not responding. Effectively a worldwide DDOS because of demand 29/2/2012
== 07:20 or so ==
Farnell sold out almost immediately: now taking pre-orders for the next batch
RS may be taking orders later in the week. [Per RaspberryPi Twitter feed]
Update: RS are also taking pre-orders and expressions of interest. Both companies will do their best to get stock to all ASAP.
Please don't blame Eben, Liz or the other RaspberryPi folks for this - they've worked miracles to get this far.
To negotiate proper licensing agreements with the two largest UK electronics distributors and get them to undertake manufacturing and distribution is, actually, a masterstroke for a small non-profit organisation.
==
Product available from RS Components and Farnell.com - both servers not responding. Effectively a worldwide DDOS because of demand 29/2/2012
== 07:20 or so ==
Farnell sold out almost immediately: now taking pre-orders for the next batch
RS may be taking orders later in the week. [Per RaspberryPi Twitter feed]
Update: RS are also taking pre-orders and expressions of interest. Both companies will do their best to get stock to all ASAP.
Please don't blame Eben, Liz or the other RaspberryPi folks for this - they've worked miracles to get this far.
To negotiate proper licensing agreements with the two largest UK electronics distributors and get them to undertake manufacturing and distribution is, actually, a masterstroke for a small non-profit organisation.
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Open Advice - Free book detailing lessons for FLOSS
A very useful little book from various developers and others: things they wish they'd known before starting out. A very sensible contribution from Debian's own Evan Prodromou amongst other names I knew and recognised and some interesting folk I'd not heard of.
http://open-advice.org/Open-Advice.pdf is the downloadable PDF although source and so on is also available. There are likely to be forums for comments and improvements.
[UPDATE - I've just had a go at the training exercises listed at openhatch.org which are linked from the site. Not a bad revision on patching/SVN/git and generally using the tools needed initially to contribute to FLOSS. A good job well done]
http://open-advice.org/Open-Advice.pdf is the downloadable PDF although source and so on is also available. There are likely to be forums for comments and improvements.
[UPDATE - I've just had a go at the training exercises listed at openhatch.org which are linked from the site. Not a bad revision on patching/SVN/git and generally using the tools needed initially to contribute to FLOSS. A good job well done]
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
UK Govt website rewrite == FLOSS
See http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/The-open-source-behind-gov-uk-revealed-1426513.html - UK major Government web site rewritten using primarily Free/Libre/Open Source Software :)
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Computers here: mostly Debian :)
A quick retrospective: there used to be four computers under the desk and one above. At the moment, I've got rid of a few computers and there's a Sun in the garage
Desk is still 1.5 m x 0.75: On top of the desk, there's a mini-ITX board "home built" computer and an HP Proliant microserver. Above it there's a four port KVM, a cable modem and Wifi router - ANOTHER WiFi router (free FON Wifi for others).
Under the desk: 1 x mini tower machine waiting for a new home, 1 x tower machine, 1 x plug computer. All of these run Debian, though some of them are mostly switched off - at least one runs Debian testing.
The netbook has gone to Africa with a colleague who was building networks for rural Kenya, along with one of the larger computers, a SheevaPlug and an NSLU2 - all running Debian - and a Chinese netbook with ARM processor which was running a Debian derivative. The laptop I'm using was abandoned by my fiancee as unworkable under Windows - it still has slightly flakey hardware but runs Debian 6.0.4 fine.
[For completeness, my daughter's computer is three or four years old and runs Windows 7 for school work (but also had an Ubuntu VM for a while): my fiancee's laptop is potentially the fastest machine in the house and certainly has the most memory and runs Windows 7.]
Is this an abnormal quota of computers for three people?
A reference picture is above
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Repurposing an old machine
The old machine that I installed Windows XP on in 2009 is now under a desk next door. 1GHz Athlon 32 bit, 40G hard drive, old Radeon card and 512MHz of memory.
It does have 2 removable media drives: one DVD rewriter and one DVD drive.
This is, now, the sort of machine you'd throw away - it won't handle Windows 7 well: it barely handled Windows XP It flies under Debian 6.0 with libreoffice from debian-backports.
It will soon go on to a friend of mine whose computers are even older: he's likely to use this machine extensively because it has real serial ports.
Use Linux - it makes sense on any hardware.
It does have 2 removable media drives: one DVD rewriter and one DVD drive.
This is, now, the sort of machine you'd throw away - it won't handle Windows 7 well: it barely handled Windows XP It flies under Debian 6.0 with libreoffice from debian-backports.
It will soon go on to a friend of mine whose computers are even older: he's likely to use this machine extensively because it has real serial ports.
Use Linux - it makes sense on any hardware.
Debian Wheezy
Just upgraded one of the computers here to Wheezy (currently Debian Testing).
The machine is an HP Proliant Microserver - 1.3GHz AMD Neo II processor, integrated graphics and 250G disk - so low power and low spec. I' ve added three more 250G hard disks.
Very impressed indeed by KDE 4.6 and the general speed of response of a desktop environment on a low spec system. No audio subsystem on the system - it's a server - so I can't speak for sound quality.
I say this every time round about now in the release cycle: the next release of Debian (due later this year sometime) will be excellent :)
The machine is an HP Proliant Microserver - 1.3GHz AMD Neo II processor, integrated graphics and 250G disk - so low power and low spec. I' ve added three more 250G hard disks.
Very impressed indeed by KDE 4.6 and the general speed of response of a desktop environment on a low spec system. No audio subsystem on the system - it's a server - so I can't speak for sound quality.
I say this every time round about now in the release cycle: the next release of Debian (due later this year sometime) will be excellent :)
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