
It is very strange that this news has bypassed Habr.GeeXboX - a popular free distribution based on
XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' and the Linux kernel, which is a lightweight media center - has received full support for the
Raspberry Pi architecture . Available is the full OpenGL ES for XBMC hardware acceleration, hardware video decoding up to 1080p HD and control from the TV remote via
HDMI-CEC .

There was no official release yet, but test builds are regularly laid out
on the developers
website .
It should be noted that GeeXboX assemblies
exist for other compact computers Pandaboard, Cubox, ux500 Snowball, nVidia Tegra2 Harmony.
By the way, our country seems to be waiting for an explosion. After all, the device became available more than ever. For example, one large retail chain (Google Help) announced the widespread availability in its stores
Raspberry Pi at a price of 2 390 rubles for a bare fee At the same time, several merchants on Amazon are already selling Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2.0 (512MB) with a transparent case for
$ 60 (~ 1,800 rubles) with delivery to any city in Russia in 3-4 days and a warranty from Amazon. Thus, you can get a full-fledged omnivorous TV set-top box for a little more than 2 thousand rubles, which you can also
tailor to fit your needs individually.