[Discuss] Raspberry PI 2

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

The proprietary nature of the pi is what drove a few guys to develop the
beagle board ( beagleboard.org ).  It is fully open, runs various flavors
of linux that stays on a 4G on-board flash. Go check the site for more
details.  It does run about $45, for the beagle board black.  Spark Fun has
them plus lots of other distributors (their shipping is less, for me anyway)

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
>
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