Raspberry PI

Anyone else got a raspberry pi?

Which distro you running on it and what are you using it for?


I've put arch on mine and installed samba and transmission using it as a download box currently but looking into using it for something a bit more adventurous.

Maybe install lamp and use as a web server?

 

I have 3 Pis (2 256mb model b and one 512mb model b), i got RaspBMC one the 512mb, trying to get TvHeadend running on another but having problems with that. and i was thinking of messing around with openremote on the last one when i get the hardware for it. I just use Raspbian as its easy to setup quickly.

 

Gifted one for my girlfriend and its running stock Debian Squeeze. Nothing fancy.

 

Does it handle video at 1080p?

 

yep so long as its the right codec and if you want to do DTS or other HD audio you have to pass it through to a a receiver to decode it.

 

I was considering buying a RPI, But only once they support stackable systems. (Meaning running four pi's as one system tethered together.)

 

I think they can be setup as a cluster with the current tools, however, using them as one Linux box is impossible without them being able to share memory, have a coherency protocol (to keep the changes consistent) and have a good performance with it, something that a multisocket board provides with high speed interconnect (lookup QPI or Hypertransport).

There are other ARM boards with multiple processor cores if you want a better performance.

 

Ya there are people that have Beowulf Clusters running on the PI but no cluster of different computers was meant to run as one desktop for users, they are designed for parallel processing. The RPI is also not good for this because the limited bandwidth of the usb Ethernet limits it to light network tasks.