"It's been successful beyond our wildest dreams. The Raspberry Pi was made with the intention of encouraging children to code and Upton said he hopes the additional power of the new model further the adoption of even more Pis inside classroom, where children use the machine to learn the basics of programming via drag and drop tools like Scratch and hardware hacking using PiFace.
Raspberry Pi 2 boards have been produced for the past four weeks at the Sony Factory in South Wales and 100,000 are on sale through element14. The foundation is working to tailor the popular Raspberry Pi operating system Raspbian to the board's more powerful specs, and is hoping to release an image of the OS that will run on both old and new systems, by swapping out the relevant libraries. The new board is compatible with older models, and should run the same operating systems and software as new OS images are released. Upton said a version of the compute module based on the Pi 2 will be produced at a later date. Older models such as the B+, A+ and Raspberry Pi compute module will continue to be sold. The Raspberry Pi 2 is available to buy today from element14 and RS Components for $35. So which tasks will the board perform better compared to the previous generation B+? The new board can run a single-threaded CPU benchmark about 2x faster, the Sunspider benchmark 4x faster, a multi-threaded CPU benchmark like SysBench 6x faster and handle NEON -enabled multicore video codecs more than 20x faster. The Raspberry Pi version of Windows 10 will be available to makers for free.
"The intention is you can take a Windows 10 application that you can run on Surface, PC, a Windows phone and now Raspberry Pi as well." "This is Windows 10 intended for IoT applications and the intention here is to have a device which you can use to build IoT devices," he said. It runs, I've seen it running, it's pretty cool," said Upton. "We've been working with Microsoft for the past six months to enable Windows 10 on Rapsberry Pi. The new board will also be able to support Ubuntu and Windows for the first time, courtesy of the boards' ARM v7 core, with a Snappy Ubuntu Core image available now.
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