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I can't believe the level of raspberry pi astroturfing present here. This board is so much more powerful that it can run full Ubuntu fast and the same chip is actually used to build very competent android tablets. I read things like "mindshare" "community" "The site is wrong" "the GPU is better in the raspberry" (Ha! sure, games will run better i suppose) , well the site looks perfectly OK for me. I gonna burn points for this, but the u$s 50 Raspberry pi is overpriced since you can get a u$s 67 complete android tablet (http://goo.gl/Misru)

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The RPi already has add-on boards and a relatively large community compared to new competitors coming to the scene. In a way, it's like comparing the msp430 to the arduino. The msp430 is arguably better than most of the AVR chips, but they just don't have the hobby mindshare of the arduino community.

A key advantage would be if you could actually buy it. Raspberry Pi is still "due to extreme demand the estimated delivery time is uncertain and may exceed 12 weeks."

Gumstix are more expensive but easily available in any quantity, so that's what I'm designing with now.

If you buy on element14, I believe you can get it in a few days. Supposedly these guys can ship immediately: http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi

I bought one last week and it arrived no slower than amazon.com so I think it's safe to say orders are no longer taking forever.

I bought one on element14 over the (holiday) weekend, and it shipped today.

It's not that bad

Can the A10 run Linux-proper (not Android) yet?

Yes it can: http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/35910-desktop-linux-ubuntu-r...

Is this chip - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllWinner_A1X

It can run a variety of linux variants. But all ARM processors that I am aware of can, even going back to the chip in the old Acorn Archimedes from the late '80s. Also, I have personally never heard of a chip that is able to run android but not able to run linux and I am not entirely sure how you would even go about making one.

Sorry, I'm looking for confirmation that they've booted a mainline kernel on it. Bonus points if the graphics chip is supported (I was confused, I thought it was on-die but it's not)

Spot on. The childish criticism on the web design really sounds like competitors are feeling the heat.

Either you are confused about the definition of astroturfing, or you are confused about the nature of the raspberry-pi foundation.

We don’t claim to have all the answers. We don’t think that the Raspberry Pi is a fix to all of the world’s computing issues; we do believe that we can be a catalyst. We want to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere; we actively encourage other companies to clone what we’re doing. We want to break the paradigm where without spending hundreds of pounds on a PC, families can’t use the internet. We want owning a truly personal computer to be normal for children.

From here - http://www.raspberrypi.org/about

I'm not agains the Raspberry pi foundation. I'm against the stupid old SoC they used and the low amount of memory. If they want to build a personal computer then add more memory, Raspberry PI now is an expensive microcontroller.

I'm not agains the Raspberry pi foundation.

Then why accuse them of astroturfing?

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