The tiny Linux-based computer, created by the U.K.-based Raspberry Pi Foundation
The organizations are still accepting orders, but are not giving firm shipping dates.
Raspberry Pi, which is the size of a flash card, sports a Broadcom 700MHz ARM processor, 256 MB of RAM and boots from an SD card running the Fedora version of Linux. There are two versions of the computer: The $35 Model B, which was the first one produced, includes an Ethernet port and two USB ports, which the $25 Model A does not.
The bare-bones device, Raspberry Pi's site explains, is aimed at software and hardware enthusiasts, teachers and others who "want to build exciting things."
Apparently, a lot of people fit that description. Although Raspberry Pi limited sales to one per person, the demand was so strong that at press time Premier Farnell's site wasn't working.