[clue] Buying pi.

[Vincent Randal]

I'm very interested in Raspberry Pi, but I could not confirm all the source code and tool chain were available to build the OS and device drivers. I'm a "retired" firmware developer and I must have all the source code or write my own. It's in my blood. But I learned Pi is not an open system in that Broadcom (I think?) will not release all the documentation on the hardware (SOC?). Furthermore, device drivers are available as proprietary binaries only like in Android et al. I hope I don't scare anyone off except maybe myself. Heck, it's so cheap I should just get one and hack away to whatever extent possible.

BTW: The reason I wanted Pi was to turn my children's TV's (with HDMI) into computers with internet access, but I'm not sure about content providers NetFlix (for kids) being available on Linux(?).


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 From: Charles Burton <charles.d.burton at gmail.com>
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I bought mine from element 14 and it was at my door in a couple days. I also just bought the pi-face and that will arrive this week. 
On Feb 3, 2013 3:30 PM, "David L. Anselmi" <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:

I think I'm going to get a Raspberry Pi or two, to try out as a cheap, low power server.  If you'd
>like to piggy back to save on shipping, let me know off-list.
>
>I'm looking at this place because I hear they'll ship quickly.  Or if you have someplace you prefer
>I'd be happy to hear about it:
>
>http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi
>
>Thanks!
>Dave
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