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Old 1st February 2013
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Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now. Almost one million of these $35 machines have shipped since last February, capturing the imaginations of educators, hobbyists and tinkerers around the world.
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Unfortunately it is not a fully open product. To be kind, I might describe it as "partially open".

There are key components (e.g. the GPU) where the open source can be seen to merely makes API requests of proprietary, closed source functions.
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For those interested, a number of previous threads can be found on this site discussing compatibility. For OpenBSD aficionados, one such discussion was:

http://daemonforums.com/showthread.p...ight=raspberry
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