An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte!
1.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
http://elinux.org/RPi-hub
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board that plugs into a TV and a keyboard. It's a miniature ARM-based PC which can be used for many of the things that a desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays High-Definition video.
Features
- Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
- GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
- GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
- 256MB RAM
- Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux
- 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
- HDMI socket
- USB 2.0 socket
- RCA video socket
- SD card socket
- Powered from microUSB socket
- 3.5mm audio out jack
- Header footprint for camera connection
- Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17mm
2. download
Raspberry Pi Releases 1st SD Card Image (Debian)
http://www.raspberrypidownload.co.uk/debian/download/debian6-17-02-2012.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45842273/zImage_3.1.9
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024195/qemu-1.0.1.tazpkg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024195/qemu-arm-1.0.1.tazpkg
3.
# unzip debian6-17-02-2012.zip
debian6-17-02-2012.img
debian6-17-02-2012.img.sha1
4. install qemu-arm-1.0.1
# tazpkg install /pathtodir/qemu-1.0.1.tazpkg
# tazpkg install /pathtodir/qemu-arm-1.0.1.tazpkg
# qemu-system-arm -cpu ? | grep 1176
arm1176
5. start qemu-arm
# qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -hda debian6-17-02-2012.img -kernel zImage_3.1.9 -append "root=/dev/sda2" -serial stdio
Default login pi/suse
$ startx
That's it.
