We've just come across the Raspberry Pi. It is a new tiny, but fully functioning computer. All it is is the chip board. It connects to a display with HDMI, no VGA option available. It comes in two model, A and B. The difference is that A has 128MB or RAM and B has 256MB, and 10/100 Ethernet Adaptor. They will sell for $25 (£15) and $35 (£22) respectively. The model A is mainly designed for schools, why the B model can be used for almost anything. The storage is done through a SD card which contains the Linux distro. You can't run Windows on it. Original it was going to run Mint, but the support for processor was dropped. We will use Fedora on ours and we highly recommend it. At the moment there is no release date, but they hope to have 10,000 models by February. There are ten beta boards for sale on eBay, but it is a charity sale, and the bids have exceeded £2000 for some models. We can't wait to get our one and have a play around. Watch this space!
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