Raspberry Pi Foundation Sells Its 30,000,000th Raspberry Pi (twitter.com) 45
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..."
"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..."
I wonder... (Score:1)
30M and still lagging... (Score:0)
Windows supposedly has 1 billion PCs in use, and Android is purportedly at 2.5 billion. Raspberry Pi still has a long way to go towards world domination, but it's a start.
Re:I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
No one cares about number 30,000,000. 31,415,926 would be cool, though.
Re:I wonder... (Score:1)
Re:I wonder... (Score:1)
Strange ... (Score:2)
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.
Re:I wonder... (Score:1)
Hmm ... (Score:2)
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
Re:Hmm ... (Score:1)
Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access? (Score:3)
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2)
i'm having an issue on my pi 4, the firmware just stops responding after using chrome to watch videos for a few hours
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:0)
Most of them except for RPi4 are garbage for doing any real desktop work.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2)
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:0)
I'm moving everything I do to my Pi 4/4GB. So sick and tired of my x86 laptop burning up electricity (I pay dearly -- once for the laptop, then twice over for the A/C to expel the heat outside). My x86 laptop plays games nice and smooth, but it has a propensity to overheat and spontaneously reboot. Pi 4 plays Warzone 2100 all day long, no overheating.
Not too pleased with my Android tablets either, given their Lithium pouch cells' propensity to eventually bulge out and crack the screen, the lack of "apt-get update" security patches, and the lack of any real on-device development tools. My Pi4 has the full assortment of real Linux apps, development tools, everything. It'll last a lot longer, and it's pretty cheap to replace even if I do accidently zap it when I start playing with the GPIO header later...
My RPi4 works well for light work (Score:3)
I have had good luck with my model4, given that I've connected a USB3 SSD for mass storage and placed it in a FLIRC case for cooling.
I use model 3 PIs to support testing my company's mainline products in various low-to-medium bandwidth scenarios, including GPIO-based event monitoring and triggering. The Pi is for my money a well-supported "swiss army knife" of computing: It can do everything we ask of it short of maximum computational/analytical work.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:3)
I have to point this out in every story when someone bitches about the speed of their $35 computer. The goal of the Raspberry Pi was to make a device for students to learn with while being as cheap as possible. That is all. It was never designed as a desktop computer and never made any claims as such.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:0)
I don't know about that. Raspberry Pi 4 is pretty darned good as a desktop computer. Of course, I'm using it with an SSD over a USB 3.0, external USB audio DAC, and I went with the $55 4GB model.
Re: Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet acces (Score:2)
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Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2, Informative)
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 run Chromium remotely on a Raspberry Pi using X11 over Ethernet to make it display on your desktop.
Raspberry PI: Internet security? (Score:2)
But... Problems?
Securing a Raspberry Pi [schneier.com] (Sept. 12, 2017)
Quoting: "A Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer designed for makers and all sorts of Internet-of-Things types of projects. Make magazine has an article [makezine.com] about securing it. Reading it, I am struck by how much work it is to secure. I fear that this is beyond the capabilities of most tinkerers, and the result will be even more insecure IoT devices."
17 security tips for your Raspberry Pi [raspberrytips.com]
Eben Upton - Founder - Raspberry Pi Foundation: Why Raspberry Pi isn't vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown [raspberrypi.org] (Jan. 5, 2018) But... Later there seemed to be doubts.
Parent comment: "... run Chromium remotely on a Raspberry Pi using X11 over Ethernet to make it display on your desktop."
What is the best way to do that?
Re:Raspberry PI: Internet security? (Score:0)
"... run Chromium remotely on a Raspberry Pi using X11 over Ethernet to make it display on your desktop."
What is the best way to do that?
Plug your cross-over Ethernet cable in between the Pi and your desktop computer, then ssh into the Pi and run "chromium." Easy as pie.
Might even work without a cross-over cable, if the Pi or your desktop supports auto-crossing (never tested it myself).
Technically you don't need ssh for this private cross-connect local network, but I find getting X11 to work over the network without ssh to be a lot more fiddly than just using ssh to take care of everything.
You might have to edit /etc/ssh/ssh to enable the "ForwardX11" option if your desktop has that ssh feature disabled by default.
Re: Raspberry PI: Internet security? (Score:1)
Re:Raspberry PI: Internet security? (Score:0)
I am struck by how much work it is to secure. I fear that this is beyond the capabilities of most tinkerers, and the result will be even more insecure IoT devices.
Seems to me this is just Bruce whining about having to do some work to secure a Pi. Sure, it would be nice if NOOBS shipped in a fully secure state out-of-the-box, but really, none of this is impossible to secure with a little tweaking -- unlike my x86 machine, which doesn't get BIOS updates and microcode security patches from Intel because my old Ivybridge processor isn't among their latest generation...
Intel intends for me to upgrade to their latest version of x86, but I've had it with their crappy insecure processors. It seems like every other month, another new Intel vulnerability is revealed. No thanks!
For far less than the cost of a new Intel CPU and motherboard, I upgraded to a Raspberry Pi 4 instead.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:1)
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:3)
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.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:3)
I think you'd be better off with a Smith Corona.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:1)
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2)
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:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2)
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).
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2)
There are no know working spectre exploits against a Raspberry Pi of any type (assuming running up to date OS on the Pi).
The Pi 4 is pretty new, a couple of months old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
According to ARM, the A73 is vulnerable and that's what's in the Pi 4.
Re:Which Raspberry PI are best for Internet access (Score:2)
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.
cuXm (Score:-1, Flamebait)
IPv6 Support (Score:1)
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:IPv6 Support (Score:1)
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?
Re: IPv6 Support (Score:1)
Yea I was on Stretch. Iâ(TM)ll test it again tomorrow on Buster and see how it goes. Thanks
Re:IPv6 Support (Score:1)
Sweet! Looks like it's working well now on Buster =D Cheers.
How many unique customers though? (Score:2)
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.
Recycling ? (Score:1)
Re:Recycling ? (Score:2)
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.
Re: Recycling ? (Score:1)
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.
thoughts on using a Pi for a tor server/node? (Score:1)
Best selling of all time (Score:2)
Beats the C64. Pages like https://www.howtogeek.com/triv... [howtogeek.com] need updating.
Best selling of all time... no, probably not (Score:2)