How-To Geek: The Inside Story Of Raspberry Pi

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The Inside Story Of Raspberry Pi Jan 18th 2013, 16:00 The Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized computer, took the world by storm in 2012. Read on as we take an inside look at the board and the company behind it–and how they were shocked to sell almost a million of them instead of a thousand. ZDnet has an extensive writeup about the Raspberry Pi and its designer Eben Upton. They write: Eben Upton’s overwhelming emotion at having co-created a $35 Linux computer that sold in the hundreds of thousands last year is surprise. The 34-year-old chip architect is genuinely taken aback that demand for the Raspberry Pi proved to be orders of magnitude larger than a small pool of aspiring UK computer engineers. “We honestly did think we would sell about 1,000, maybe 10,000 in our wildest dreams. We thought we would make a small number and give them out to people who might want to come and read computer science at Cambridge,” he told ZDNet. How to Connect to a VPN in Windows HTG Explains: What is a VPN? (And Why You Might Want to Use One) How to Use NTFS Compression and When You Might Want To

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