Raspberry Pi Update: Almost ready for launch; Kernel sources posted

As the Raspberry Pi nears it’s final stages before becoming available for sale to the public, we thought we’d give you a quick update on their progress. As stated in this post on the Raspberry Pi blog, the linux kernel that the Raspberry Pi team is deploying version 3.1.9 with Raspberry Pi-specific patches applied. Linux developers may be interested to check out the Raspberry Pi kernel github, however if you don’t know what a kernel is or know how to compile a kernel, then it’s not for the faint-hearted.

When the Raspberry Pi goes on sale, Coburn’s Domain will be getting one to review and also run our benchmarking suite on it. It will be put head to head against a CuBox and our faithful SheevaPlug. While the CuBox is ARMv7 and the SheevaPlug is ARMv5, the Raspberry Pi is a ARMv6 device – whatever the case, it should be rather interesting to see what the go is.

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