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The CuBox Pro: for $160, a tiny, open PC with 2GB of RAM
One of the most striking tech trends of 2012 was the invasion of the tiny, inexpensive Linux PCs including the Raspberry Pi, the Cotton Candy, and increasingly innumerable others.
I fully expect this trend to continue throughout 2013, as I’ve said before, and this week we got some fresh tangible evidence suggesting that it will.
Specifically, Israel-based SolidRun on Thursday unveiled yet another tiny entry: the CuBox Pro, a diminutive device it calls the world’s first ARM-based open source platform packed with a full 2GB of DDR3 memory.
Just 3 watts of power
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Raspberry Pi gets an open source educational manual
Engadget: Been staring at that Raspberry Pi trying to figure out where to start? You’re hardly alone.
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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a tiny Linux laptop
Ever since the tiny $35 Raspberry Pi PC began shipping earlier this year, there’s been virtually no limit to the fresh uses and extensions that have been envisioned for it.
We’ve seen the credit card-sized device used in a DSLR battery grip, a Minecraft server, and a gaming console. Since its release it’s been enhanced with an optimized OS, an overclocking tool, more RAM, and an app store.
The latest innovation? None other than a way to turn a Raspberry Pi into a tiny Linux laptop.
A 10-hour battery
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Raspberry Pi Gets its Own App Store
OSTATIC: The diminutive $25/$35 Linux computer dubbed Raspberry Pi is attracting developers and tinkerers, and showing up in multiple types of use cases.
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Coming soon: A new, open laptop from the creator of Chumby
Open source software has become an increasingly widespread part of the computing world thanks to the ever-growing popularity of Linux, Firefox, LibreOffice, and other prominent examples. Fully open hardware, however, is still much less common.
Just a few weeks ago we saw the emergence of the Raspberry Pi-style A13-OLinuXino, but over the weekend another interesting contender came to light: a new, open laptop from the creator of the Chumby Internet device.
“We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me,” wrote renowned Xbox hacker and Chumby creator Andrew “Bunnie” Huang in a blog post on Sunday.
“The hardware and its sub-components are picked so as to make this the most practically open hardware laptop I could create using state of the art technology,” Huang added. “You can download, without NDA, the datasheets for all the components, and key peripheral options are available so it’s possible to build a complete firmware from source with no opaque blobs.”
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Raspberry Pi gets an app store
Raspberry Pi, a $25 credit-card sized Linux computer introduced earlier this year, is getting its own app store.
News of the store opening was announced at the Raspberry Pi website. “Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we’re launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games, applications, tools and tutorials with the rest of the community,” the nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation wrote at the website.
“The Pi Store will, we hope, become a one-stop shop for all your Raspberry Pi needs,” the announcement adds. “It’s also an easier way into the Raspberry Pi experience for total beginners, who will find everything they need to get going in one place, for free.”
Twenty-three free titles will be part of the store’s initial inventory, including LibreOffice, Asterisk, Freeciv, OpenTTD, and Iridium Rising.
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Battle of the pint-size PCs: Cotton Candy, MK802 II, and Raspberry Pi face off
Today’s smartphones are pretty good computers, but we’ve tried out three computational powerhouses that make the slimmest phone look like ENIAC. (The world’s first electronic computer, unveiled in 1946, weighed 27 tons and consumed 1800 square feet of floor space.) The Cotton Candy, the MK802 II, and the Raspberry Pi are amazingly tiny, incredibly inexpensive, and eminently customizable. They make terrific platforms for hobbyists fond of experimentation, and they’re ideal for students interested in learning how to program, but they can also serve as ordinary productivity machines.
These miniature marvels eschew the power-hungry x86 processors found in desktop and laptop PCs in favor of mobile CPUs and GPUs, but each relies on an external monitor or HDTV—connected via HDMI—to display its user interface and other video output. In fact, the Cotton Candy and the MK802 II are the same shape and size as a USB memory stick, and plug directly into a TV. Thanks to that skimpy hardware, these computers can operate on just the trickle of energy provided by the display they’re connected to. Alternatively, you can plug in the same type of USB AC power adapter that modern smartphones and tablets use.
Much of the appeal of these pint-size PCs lies in their software versatility. Each device can boot from a MicroSD card containing an operating system disc image (typically some flavor of Android or a Linux distro tailored to its hardware set). If your tinkering utterly demolishes the stability of the OS, you can just overwrite the memory card with a new image and start over.
After comprehensive testing, I found that each of these micro PCs has its upside and downside, but all three devices shine in distinctly different scenarios.
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