An interesting article on playing video without being in the X Windows GUI. Should be interesting to see if we can do it on the Raspberry Pi! How to watch videos in Linux console with the help of MPlayer.

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Several magazines are covering the Pi this coming month. Read more on the Pi in Print page for January 2012.

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A quick  tutorial on installing a Ruby implementation of the Pi. Requires compilation of source. Building mruby on the Raspberry Pi – GeekMonkey.

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Make Use Of has a lovely round-up article on the 7 Reasons To Get A Raspberry Pi.

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The Foundation and RiscOS Open have just announced that RiscOS is available for the Raspberry Pi! It’s an interesting (though not as useful) operating system that came to fame on the Acorn Archimedes platform in the 1980s. I say ‘just’…

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Great big article at the UK Guardian newspaper website followed by comments. One in particular made me grit my teeth. Apparently, the Pi is just for geeks and that if you want to learn a real language and make money,…

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A really nice beginners article about putting a Pi together. The reason I’m blogging this is that the site is actually for teenage girls. That’s right – the Pi isn’t just for geek boys! (I know, I know, this isn’t a…

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Great post on the possibility of using the Raspberry Pi for socio-economic development. Raspberry Pi: A Paradigm Shift for ICT4D? « ICTs for Development.

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The Frustrated IT engineer has blogged a simple how-to for getting MySQL up and running on your Pi. Adding Mysql to your Raspberry Pi webserver « Frustrated IT Engineer.

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I don’t normally criticise another website or even an online venture… but this takes the biscuit. raspi.mobi is offering hosting and content management services for Raspberry Pi owners who want a website that can be browsed on a mobile. Have…

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