Thanks for explaining. Ubuntu's approach makes sense then. Wonder how much more expense v7 would have been.
I see the problem with Raspberry Pi being the software and the SDK. It is a very elegant and appealing piece of hardware but that only gets them there half way. The other is the manuals, the sdk, some kind of recipe exchange or cookbook for basic things.
Also, it looks like Arch Linux has stepped up to replace Ubuntu.
Once it has USB, Ethernet, and HDMI it is not your uncle's bare 8 bit micro-controller anymore. Yeah developers could sit and each write a different version of HDMI driver, but wouldn't be too much fun. One would expect there to be a nice SDK and libraries to access and make use of all those hardware features.
I see the problem with Raspberry Pi being the software and the SDK. It is a very elegant and appealing piece of hardware but that only gets them there half way. The other is the manuals, the sdk, some kind of recipe exchange or cookbook for basic things.
Also, it looks like Arch Linux has stepped up to replace Ubuntu.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (March 4th, post)