Raspberry Pi 2 Announced and Now Available

[Joe88]

I dont believe the original ever had support for hi10p mkv's (I think it wasnt powerful anyway to play them)

 

[cracker]

I want to get one of these. This will be my first introduction to one, but I've been looking into it for a while. I wanta complete package or something that I can plug into the hdmi in my tv and go. Especially one that can run/upgrade to windows 10.

Wouldn't mind having ubuntu, bu I already run that on my mbp. I guess just whatever ones the newest one. Anybody have any suggestions on a certain one to get, or where, and which package to buy?? Thanks for any suggestions.

There are starter kits that vary but always include power supplies and 8G Raspbian-flashed micro/SDs. Since they can cost a lot more you might just want to grab a cheap 5V/2.xA phone charger, HDMI cable, and 2 microSDs (at least). You can swap OSes by simply shutting down and putting another image-flashed micro/SD in. For XBMC-based images a 2G micro/SD will do but for Linux and Win10 you will want more obviously.

I'm going to sound like an idiot, but I have heard of these things but run into too much jargon.

CAn this function well as an HTPC with say XMBC (Kodi)? What else do I need to actually build one?

You will need a 5V/2.xA phone charger, HDMI (or a 4 pole stereo to RCA cable), and a way to control it. A mouse or keyboard will do but you can also get a BT or IR remote with USB singles or just a dongle if you already have a spare remote or PS3 controller. If you have an Android device you can use Yatse to control it over a WiFi network.

 

[FAST6191]

Just thought I would add you can dual boot pis
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot is a decent way of doing it, also a decent way of installing OSes for it in general rather than having to mess around with the various install methods.

Also XBMC/kodi has a pretty decent web based remote control, or indeed multiple web control plugins. Something a bit more native is likely to do better at various levels, however you can press play, press pause, fastforward, control the GUI in general and select anything in your library from a nice list of boxart over anything with a half modern web browser.

 

[freestile]

cracker Cool thanks for letting me know whats up.

 

[Keylogger]

Do you know if the raspeberry PI2 is powerfull enought to run a N64 emulator (like mupen64) with an USB controller?

 

[cracker]

Yes there is a build for the Pi.

 

[zerofalcon]

Someone tested mupen64plus (standalone version) with the new raspberry pi 2. Seems it runs faster.

 

[DjoeN]

Also PS1 Emulation at full speed

http://www.raspberrypi.org/emulation-on-raspberry-pi-2/

 

[cracker]

Nice! But honestly the Pi 1 Model A should be able to achieve full speed (even when not ocerclocked).

 

[XDel]

Every member of GBA should own one of these! Every developer, every gamer, every OS enthusiast! Why wait on systems with locked down firmware to be hacked? Seriously, the GPU on this is slightly weak, but not so weak it is totally useless, not by a long shot. The 2 is what the first Pi needed to be to be of any use as game hardware.

 

[cracker]

I'm a fan and owner of the Pi but I find that ironic and funny because devs have had problems porting Android and such because of the locked down chipset that hasn't had the documentation and/or source code released to them.

 

[DarkWrath669]

Just throwing this out there as i was disappointed when I found out.

The information from the engineers on the foundation forums state that the version of "Windows 10" is going to be a very basic stripped out CLI version, similar to Ubuntu Core that is currently out.

I was hoping this would give me a cheap thin client to use Windows 10 native streaming function... but alas there is likely to be no GUI.

I thought it would basically be like Windows RT as that runs on ARM and tablets or devices of similar specs.

This is not clarified on the announcement blog of the foundation or the media articles that are going "OMG IT WILL HAVE WINDOWS 10 FOR FREE!!!"

 

[Depravo]

Just don't take a photo of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31294745

 

[Zanoab]

Just don't take a photo of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31294745

Or just turn off the camera flash if you use it and the pi is on

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

The effective range of the bug was like 50cm IIRC, which is like...a foot and a half or something, so just don't be a foot and a half in front of your Pi when taking a picture

And really, you should have your Pi in a case anyways so it shouldn't matter much to a majority. And it's only caused by Xenon flashes, which is only used (for the most part, I know some phones have it) in digital cameras so you could just use a phone camera.

 

[Retr0Capez]

Whelp. Raspi is almost a full blown Linux Machine.

 

[FAST6191]

Whelp. Raspi is almost a full blown Linux Machine.

Almost? I seem to recall running several distros of Linux, even quite popular ones, on my pi and approaching modifying what it does using Linux/Unix style approaches to things. I once saw someone say something like "Android is Linux somewhere under all that Java" and I agree with that, however full fat Linux on a pi is not even a oddball hack sort of thing.

 

[Retr0Capez]

Almost? I seem to recall running several distros of Linux, even quite popular ones, on my pi and approaching modifying what it does using Linux/Unix style approaches to things. I once saw someone say something like "Android is Linux somewhere under all that Java" and I agree with that, however full fat Linux on a pi is not even a oddball hack sort of thing.

I meant like a PC running Linux.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I meant like a PC running Linux.

It already runs Linux like a PC :^)

I think the phrase you'd be looking for would be "a full blown x86 Linux Machine", in which case you'd be wrong anyways since it's still using an ARM CPU which puts it exactly no where near a "full blown Linux machine"

 

[Retr0Capez]

It already runs Linux like a PC :^)

I think the phrase you'd be looking for would be "a full blown x86 Linux Machine", in which case you'd be wrong anyways since it's still using an ARM CPU which puts it exactly no where near a "full blown Linux machine"

Yah.