[antt]

Raspbian isn't 'bog standard ubunutu'. The beagle bone black on the other hand does run bog standard everything. The right tool for the right job, the rpi is amazingly cheap and disposable for hardware projects. It is not a good machine to teach computers on because it's architecture is pretty odd.

[tokai]

Well raspbian is Debian, so you're right in that it is not Ubuntu. What would you say is the substantial difference between Ubuntu for arm and x86?