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tagline: From openSUSE

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.

Technical Data

  • Low Power ARM1176JZ-F Applications Processor (ARMv6)
  • Dual Core VideoCore IV® Multimedia Co-Processor
  • 1080p30 Full HD HP H.264 Video Encode/Decode
  • Advanced Image Sensor Pipeline (ISP) for up to 20-megapixel cameras operating at up to 220 megapixels per second
  • Low power, high performance OpenGL-ES® 1.1/2.0 VideoCore GPU. 1 Gigapixel per second fill rate.
  • High performance display outputs. Simultaneous high resolution LCD and HDMI with HDCP at 1080p60

More technical data (tests and configurations) on openSUSE:Raspberry_Pi.

Installing the openSUSE Factory Image

Warning OBS image is currently broken (20/11/2012). Please use this image: http://zq1.de/~bernhard/linux/opensuse/raspberrypi-opensuse-20130401.img.gz
  1. Download the latest openSUSE-Factory-ARM-raspberrypi-*.raw.xz image at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory:/ARM:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi/images/ .
  2. Extract the image onto an SD card. WARNING all previous data on the SD card will be lost.
     xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX; sync
  3. Power on the Raspberry Pi.
  4. Have a lot of fun...
  • Default login: root, password: linux