[Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

[Tom Metro]

Kent Borg wrote:
> ...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...)

The proprietary nature of the Pi is still its most significant drawback.

A practical example of that limitation is the lack of an Android build
for the Pi. OpenBSD is also not available[1]. (Though other BSDs are[2].)

There are other Pi clones[3] that are more open. And other boards[4]
with similar functionality, but Pi is more popular and has a larger
support community than just about anything.

 -Tom

1. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132788027403910&w=2
2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/netbsd-is-here/
3. http://www.bananapi.org/
4. http://beagleboard.org/

-- 
Tom Metro
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