My Raspberry Pi Finally arrives
I had tried in vain to get on RS Components list to order so I decided to jump ship and get a version from Maplins instead.
What is the advantage of the Maplins bundle?
If you want a Raspberry Pi then this seems a great choice. My Father-in-Law bought the bare system and had to buy all these parts and it cost him considerably more.
The quality of all the parts is reasonable. There is only a cheap HDMI cable, but since these work just as well as the expensive versions it is fine. There is no composite cable and this is something that my Father-in-Law would have needed.
The Bonus of getting the OS in the SD card with help many people get started, but I wanted to put on the same OS as Father-in-Law so we could be the same ( at least to start with). I also went for a wired system as the switch is a few feet away.
I tried Fedora 14 on a Class 10 16Gb card. This sort of worked. The card worked fine, and so did the OS booting into a GUI OS but the install failed me because I couldn't get the login to work