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下面是我在折腾树莓派的过程中积累的一些想法，愿与大家交流。

【1】我为什么爱树莓派 / Why I love Raspberry Pi
话说现在的电脑都已经很便宜了，随便买一台上网本都比树莓派的性能要强得多，而且用来开发软件也更容易（编译快，运行快，等等），为什么要“自虐”般地使用树莓派这样一个貌似“不健全”的卡片式电脑呢？
Personal computers are very cheap nowadays, any low price netbooks must have much better performance than Raspberry Pi, so why we use such an deficient card-size computer like Pi(may be autosadism)?
或者换另一个问题，明明都已经有了很多很流行的嵌入式平台，例如Arduino这样的东西，而且Arduino还很便宜，为什么要用树莓派这样的东西来实现一些它可以实现的功能？
Or consider another question: we already have many very popular embedded platforms, such as Arduino, and Arduino is very cheap, too, so why we use Raspberry Pi to do something it can do?
我只想从我个人的角度来谈谈这些问题。
I want to talk about this from my personal view.
文章来源：http://www.codelast.com/
先从一个故事说起吧。很久以前，我想自己做一个桌面软件与嵌入式软件结合的系统——例如，一个搭载嵌入式系统的手持设备，需要与Windows上的软件交互——但我个人能力有限，无法自己开发嵌入式程序，因此，我一直想学一些嵌入式系统开发知识，由于工作原因，计划一直搁置。我一直觉得，如果能在嵌入式系统上直接用C++，调用STL库来写程序，那该多好啊，那样我就可以利用自己已经掌握的一部分知识来实现自己的愿望了。
Let me start it from a story. Long time ago I ever wanted to build a system which combines the desktop & embedded software, e.g. a handheld device which has an embedded OS, it can interact with the Windows software. But I couldn't develop the embedded software myself due to my knowledge limitation, so I always want to learn some embedded software development knowledge since then, but because of busy work the plan has be lying on the table for a long time. Sometimes I think that how wonderful it is if I can use C++ to invoke STL library to write programs on the embedded system, then I can use some of the knowledge which I already had to make my wish reality.
终于，树莓派出现了。装上了Arch Linux ARM的树莓派就像是一个完整的桌面电脑，我可以在上面跟x86计算机一样，没有多少差别地编写程序了！
Finally Raspberry Pi came to my sight one day. A Raspberry Pi which installed with Arch Linux ARM acts like a full functional desktop computer and I can write C++ programs with not much difference as that on x86 computers!
而树莓派同时又具有超便宜的价格、超低的功耗、超小的体积，这些完美地结合在一起，圆了我可以一个人“做点什么”的梦。
And the Raspberry Pi has a super low price, super low power consumption, ultra small size, all these combined together make my dream of "do something" reality.
所以我爱树莓派爱得深。尽管我不如那些大神一般牛，我不能用它设计出一个令人惊叹的系统，但是我也从上面找到了自己的快乐。
That's why I love Pi so much. Although I'm not as brilliant as those talented people and I'm not able to use it to design an amazing system, I still found my joy from it.

【2】中国的学生与树莓派 / Chinese students and Raspberry Pi
树莓派的初衷就是刺激计算机教育，我们已经看到了很多树莓派在学校中的应用的例子，例如这个链接。
我觉得这在西方发达国家不会让人觉得很稀奇，但是在教育模式相对落后的中国大陆，这种事真的是比较罕见。
树莓派这玩意很便宜，非常适合于在贫困地区推广，但是同时也有一个问题，贫困地区的教育水平非常落后，要找到有能力教授以Linux为基础的计算机知识的老师，不是一件容易的事情。我认为在这件事情上，不是捐献一批树莓派就可以解决的，光有硬件完全不顶用，还要人这个“软件”同步跟上才行。
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