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[Discuss] Raspberry PI 2



On 02/22/2015 12:34 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
> The hardware and software curves crossed about ten years ago, so it's 
> logical that the hardware devices would get smaller and more 
> specialized. The only thing I'm afraid of is that they're headed 
> toward "appliance" status, where each "strawberry Pi", "Pecan Pi", 
> etc. is limited to a single burned-in capability that can never be 
> changed.

Ironic that as we march away from general purpose computers, we are 
getting a splash from such a wonderfully general purpose computer.

Compared to a phone where hacking ranges from difficult to possibly 
illegal, this little beast is nearly wide open. (Okay, the Broadcom chip 
is not publicly documented and binary blobs are needed to use much of 
it, but still...)

-kb




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