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Raspberry Pi Foundation Sells Its 30,000,000th Raspberry Pi (twitter.com) 45

Posted by EditorDavid from the plenty-of-Pi dept.
McGruber writes: In a reply to a Twitter post, Raspberry Pi Foundation's CEO Eben Upton announced that they have sold their thirty-millionth Raspberry Pi.
"We don't get sales returns from our licensees until month end," Upton acknowledged in a later tweet, but "at the end of November, we were at 29.8Mu, with a monthly run rate of 500-600ku..."
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Raspberry Pi Foundation Sells Its 30,000,000th Raspberry Pi

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  • I just purchased a RasPi 4 a few days ago. I wonder if I got number 30,000,000? Hmmm...

    • Re:I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)

      by KiloByte ( 825081 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @09:20PM (#59519622)

      No one cares about number 30,000,000. 31,415,926 would be cool, though.

      • Oh! How did I miss that!?

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by xushi ( 740195 )
        I'd prefer 33,554,432.

      • 31,415,926 factors into 2, 1901 and 8263. I still haven't figure our the hidden message.
        On the other hand, 30,000,000 factors into 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 and 5 which seems to me that the person encoding the message was stammering.

      • uhm let's get obsessive about this... how about number 314,159,265,358,979 ?? etc..

        • This also factors into 3 prime factors:

          314,159,265,358,979 = 43 x 107,999 x 67,649,047

          Something is definitely going on here

          • Would you think me facetious if I said I was devious enough to plan it that way, hoping someone would notice? .... i goofed up. I should have posted the 100 digit evaluation of pi... 31,415,926,535,897,932,384,626,433,832,795,028,841,971,693,993,751,058,209,749,445,923,078,164,062,862,089,986,280,348,253,421,170,679 FACTOR THAT, you FIEND!
  • Which of the Raspberry PI models have no CPU flaws, such as the ones in Intel CPUs? Which Raspberry PI is best for Internet access?

    • Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:4, Informative)

      by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Saturday December 14, 2019 @08:36PM (#59519542)
      I'm not sure. I use them for setting up Kodi boxes and PiCade cabinets. I've never had an issue however with any model accessing the Internet. I've used Pis from the first model all the way up to the latest version4 just released. All good in my opinion.

      • i'm having an issue on my pi 4, the firmware just stops responding after using chrome to watch videos for a few hours

    • No Raspberry Pi is affected by the Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities so far. RPis use a Cortex A53 or other slower ARM cores. Only the faster cores like A72 are vulnerable to some variants, even then, fastly fewer vulernabilities than Intel CPUs with HT.

    • Re: (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward

      They're all good. The models prior to Raspberry Pi 4 are using cores that don't have any of those security flaws. The Pi 4 uses a newer core that would be vulnerable to Spectre variants 1, 2, 3a and 4, but the Raspbian Linux kernel has been built with Spectre mitigations, so there are currently no known working exploits.

      Since the Raspberry Pi's are so cheap, everybody should be doing their web browsing them to improve security. If you don't want to give up your speedy and power hungry x86 desktop, you could

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by AHuxley ( 892839 )
      Re "best for Internet access?" add a cooling fan and use the newest code...

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Probably the 4. It has more RAM and speed for the browser.

      The CPU is ARM and most of the exploits target iOS or Android so even if there is some flaw the probability of it being successfully used against you running Linux is extremely low.

    • I think you'd be better off with a Smith Corona.

    • Which of the Raspberry PI models have no CPU flaws, such as the ones in Intel CPUs?

      Models 1, 2 and 3 (and variants thereof).

      Which Raspberry PI is best for Internet access?

      4.

      The intel style flaws are all due to the out of order execution system needed for top performance. AMD and Arm Cortex A-7x and similar are all vulnerable if not as vulnerable as Intel.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by jabuzz ( 182671 )

        Very few CPU designs suffer from meltdown and they are almost all Intel ones. No Raspberry Pi suffers from meltdown as does no AMD CPU. Spectre is a different matter, but again Intel seems particularly vulnerable. There are no know working spectre exploits against a Raspberry Pi of any type (assuming running up to date OS on the Pi).

    • Which of the Raspberry PI models have no CPU flaws

      None. No CPU on the market from any company ever has had no flaws. That's why erratum are published by Intel, AMD, ARM, and every other manufacturer which often goes into 100s of pages over the lifetime of a CPU.

  • Did anyone manage to get IPv6 working properly on the RPi?

    Granted I only tested on the 3 B+ and Zero W, but if I enable IPv6 on them, speed crawls down to just a few bytes/sec. Disable it and I get proper speeds again.

    I can't remember if I had the same issue with Jumbo Frames or not - will test.

    A lot online seem to have the same problem but the "fix" was always to "disable IPv6 system-wide", which is asinine..

    https://www.techrepublic.com/a... [techrepublic.com]

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I'm using Raspberry Pi 4/4GB with Raspbian 10 "buster" and I've never noticed any IPv6 problem. Were you using something earlier than buster?

  • I know I've bought over 100 raspberry pi zeros (for projects I sell), and at least 3 raspberry pis. I have 2 and an odroid XU4 running right now. I wonder if they're counting zeros in that and how many unique customers they have. If each one of us is buying multiple raspberry pis, that might not be that impressive of a number.

  • Is there a way to recycle Raspberry's when they are outdated or broken ?

    • Is there a way to recycle Raspberry's when they are outdated

      Ebay for those.

      Unless people want a screen and desktop stuff, the original Pi with 256M of RAM is plenty for many projects.

      • Yea. I bought several cheap IR cameras from Ali Express, hooked them up to the older Pis and turned them into nifty motion detection cameras for the house. You can do other similar things like this too.

  • Considering setting up a tor node with a pi... thoughts? warnings?

  • Beats the C64. Pages like https://www.howtogeek.com/triv... [howtogeek.com] need updating.

    • The total units sold for the C64 are for an almost 100% backwards compatible hardware and software base over the life of the system (nothing happened to the hardware other than cost reductions by consolidating chips / newer processes). No CPU instructions were changed, no system software was changed, and no hardware level registers were changed - the same software which ran on the first C-64 that came out of Commodore ran unmodified, no patches, recompilations or fixes needed, on the last C-64 that came ou

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