Raspberry Pi gets an app store - grahamladmoultan

Raspberry bush Principal investigator, a $25 credit-visiting card medium-size Linux computer introduced earlier this year, is getting its own app store.

News of the store opening was announced at the Raspberry Pi website. "Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we'rhenium launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games, applications, tools and tutorials with the rest of the community," the not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation wrote at the website.

"The Pi Store will, we hope, become a one-stop shop for all your Snort Pi of necessity," the announcement adds. "It's also an easier way into the Boo Pi see for total beginners, who will find everything they need to get going in one place, for slaveless."

Twenty-three free titles bequeath be function of the salt away's initial take stock, including LibreOffice, Asterisk, Freeciv, OpenTTD, and Iridium Rise.

The makers of the diminutive Raspberry Private detective began taking orders for the computer in March and immediately sold-out out the first run of the product.

Hiss Pi is basically an uncased motherboard with 700MHz ARM processor. It's designed to run word processing, video applications, and Internet access, and includes connections for data input/output, display support, and networking.

The basic unit ($25) includes 250MB of Ram down, a micro USB port wine, Blu-ray support, HDMI port, cardinal USB ports and RCA video and audio connections. Ethernet support stern be added for $10.

Linux flavors supported away the device include Fedora, Debian, and ArchLinux.

Rivals come out

Since the Raspberry Shamus's introduction, several other single-board, affordable computers have been introduced to the market.

The $60 Cubieboard appeared in September. It has a 1GHz ARM processor and 4GB of RAM, and runs Android as well as Ubuntu and Linux.

At the very time, the $89 UG802 appeared, which runs Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) by nonpayment. It has a 1.6GHz dual-core ARM processor, 1GB of Jampack, 4GB of onboard storage, USB ports, HDMI connector, and microSD slot.

Other unit arrived last month, the $57 A13-OLinuXino, which has a 1GHz Sleeve central processing unit, a 3D Mali400 GPU, and 512MB of RAM.

Meanwhile, developers continue to find interesting applications for Raspberry Pi. E.g., researchers at the University of Southampton encased one of the units in Legos and made a Minecraft server out of IT.