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What is the Raspberry Pi® ? A low-cost ARM GNU/Linux box.

The Raspberry Pi® is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the

Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of

basic computer science in schools. The design is based on a Broadcom

BCM2835 system on a chip (SoC), which includes an ARM1176JZF-S

700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 256 megabytes of RAM. The

design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead

relying on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. The Foundation

plans to support Fedora Linux as the initial system software

package/distribution, with support for Debian and Arch Linux as well -

Wikipedia.

Raspberry Pi® is a trademark of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.