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PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry PiPyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry PiPosted Mar 22, 2013 18:34 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi by pboddie Parent article: PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi
calling a Pi an 'appliance' is seriously misleading.
Appliances are single purpose devices that almost always prevent you from making any changes to the software on the device.
If you squint hard enough, you could define a Pi this way, it's single purpose is to run a general purpose, open source operating system
But by that argument, Mac computers are appliances, their single purpose is to run OS/X.
I don't think you would find many people agreeing that Mac computers are appliances, and by the same token Pi computers are not appliances.
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PyCon: Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi Posted Mar 22, 2013 23:17 UTC (Fri) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
I meant appliance in the way that you switch it on and it just works. Given that the very nature of the device requires you to supply your own operating system and that you have complete control over what that is (subject to obvious technical constraints, in case anyone wants to pick apart that statement), I think it's obvious that I didn't mean appliance in the sense that only the manufacturer gets to decide how the device is used.
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