The Raspberry Pi has reached the new milestone with 2.5 million units shipped just as it has celebrated its second birthday.



In case you remember, this little computer managed to sell out its initial 100,000 unit stock on the first day and sales have not slowed down, allowing them to reach incredible 2.5 million units sold in just over two years. This success has allowed the Raspberry Pi Foundation to financially support several open-source software projects and in order to celebrate the second birthday, Broadcom has released the full documentation and source code stac for the graphics chip on the Raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation will also host a rather interesting contest, offering US $10,000 to the first person which will "demonstrate to us satisfactorily that they can successfully run Quake III at a playable framerate on Raspberry Pi". Now that the source code for the Broadcom graphics chip is out, we are quite sure that there will be quite a few attempts, although we are quite sure that someone would try it out eventually without the contest.

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Source: Raspberrypi.org