Can I use the $35 Raspberry Pi as my main computer?

[froggyboy604]

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Would it be possible to use a version of Linux like Raspian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint installed on the $35 Raspberry Pi as my main computer for most of the task I do on a daily basis like watching video, listening to music, writing blog posts, web browsing, e-mail, and uploading files to my web hosting account with FTP clients like FileZilla?

Anyone knows how basic programs like Word Processors, Web Browsers, and media players perform on the Raspberry Pi?

 

[etc]

Why not. As far as I know you can install puppy linux on it. Raspberry pi is designed for programmers like they say. Puppylinux has abi word and spreadsheet. It also have firefox, seamonkey and opera packages, vlc and gnome media player.

 

[Brandon Sheley]

It's a pretty cool computer, I have a few friends that have gotten and modded them. Here is one for 13$ as well.

http://www.neowin.net/news/13-stellaris ... pberrys-pi

 

[R44]

Would it be possible to use a version of Linux like Raspian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint installed on the $35 Raspberry Pi as my main computer for most of the task I do on a daily basis like watching video, listening to music, writing blog posts, web browsing, e-mail, and uploading files to my web hosting account with FTP clients like FileZilla?

Anyone knows how basic programs like Word Processors, Web Browsers, and media players perform on the Raspberry Pi?

We were discussing this at College one day, a few interesting things came out of it.

The best we came up with: say, 400 of them in a rack, as a server interface for Web Hosting. Must work on that at some point 😛

But yes, you'd be able to do menial tasks such as watching YouTube on it in it's present state without doing so.

 

[froggyboy604]

Would it be possible to use a version of Linux like Raspian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint installed on the $35 Raspberry Pi as my main computer for most of the task I do on a daily basis like watching video, listening to music, writing blog posts, web browsing, e-mail, and uploading files to my web hosting account with FTP clients like FileZilla?

Anyone knows how basic programs like Word Processors, Web Browsers, and media players perform on the Raspberry Pi?

We were discussing this at College one day, a few interesting things came out of it.

The best we came up with: say, 400 of them in a rack, as a server interface for Web Hosting. Must work on that at some point 😛

But yes, you'd be able to do menial tasks such as watching YouTube on it in it's present state without doing so.

I recently saw a guy on YouTube network a lot of Raspberry Pi together with lego cases to form a cluster or grid computer like a supercomputer to show thar the RPi can be used as a supercomputer.

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I think it is a good idea if people can also use their Smartphones, Tablets, and other computer devices to work together to do a few tasks like how SETI@Home uses a lot of internet computers with a program to look for life in space by computing data from Radio telescopes.