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Title: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: Kratos on September 05, 2012, 01:57:43 am: Hey guys how is everyone doing?

So, I received my order of Raspberry Pi $35 credit card sized computer. I am currently installing Raspbian a Debian distro optimized for the pi device. What I want to do is setup a GES server on this thing and hopefully run a 10 player server? 8 players? idk ill test once i get the damn thing to work haha

Took me 3 months to get it. I find this pretty cool that it plays video files up to 1080p.

Specs

"The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries."

"The GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode.

The GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24 GFLOPs of general purpose compute and features a bunch of texture filtering and DMA infrastructure.

That is, graphics capabilities are roughly equivalent to Xbox 1 level of performance. Overall real world performance is something like a 300MHz Pentium 2, only with much, much swankier graphics."

(http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/3865/img20120829123849.jpg)

(http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/7821/img20120829190520.jpg)
(http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/900/img20120829200003.jpg)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: killermonkey on September 05, 2012, 02:23:13 am: My P4 linux box "struggles" with 10 players, good luck to yah :-)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: Kratos on September 05, 2012, 02:28:43 am: Quote from: killermonkey on September 05, 2012, 02:23:13 am
My P4 linux box "struggles" with 10 players, good luck to yah :-)

Really? FUHHHHCK! Anyhow, Ill try to run and test the max players it runs fine on and report the results later.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: namajnaG on September 05, 2012, 05:27:40 am: Well, You could host a classic 4-man ;)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: Wake[of]theBunT on September 05, 2012, 09:47:52 am: And then play LAN on GoldenEye: Source afterward.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: Proxie on September 05, 2012, 12:46:15 pm: Start developing for it or turn it into a NAS box.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: killermonkey on September 05, 2012, 03:28:13 pm: I want to get one to run a dedicated ssh vpn off my home network for when I travel.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: Kratos on September 05, 2012, 04:41:48 pm: Quote from: killermonkey on September 05, 2012, 03:28:13 pm
I want to get one to run a dedicated ssh vpn off my home network for when I travel.

I got mine here http://www.alliedelec.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?SKU=70229569
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: killermonkey on September 06, 2012, 01:51:56 am: I placed my order... now to order that time machine so I can pick it up ;-)
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: Kratos on September 06, 2012, 04:46:50 pm: Quote from: killermonkey on September 06, 2012, 01:51:56 am
I placed my order... now to order that time machine so I can pick it up ;-)

i never played around with debian in the past. So, I put Arch Linux for which I am familiar with, and its running like a champ.

Too bad you cant run steam/ges on this. I could take it anywhere and play it on the tv.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi $35 ARM Processor Credit Card Sized Computer
Post by: killermonkey on September 06, 2012, 08:48:45 pm: I want to install the QtonPi distribution since I love Qt and can probably code some mean apps for it.