Yes
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Your question is simple and thus it deserves a simple answer. 

> Are RaspberryPi's ever on topic for ServerFault?

Simply, RaspberryPi is a hardware platform. There are all kind of [business applications of RaspberryPi.](http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php) I've used it in business to establish a VPN bridge to Amazon. I've also used it to do all kinds of things.

Serverfault is a pretty bad idea, but the second you enter the world of business-applications it becomes a business platform and it is therefore on topic. Any attempt to exclude it is more because ServerFault wants to cut an a niche that is more exclusive than the inclusiveness found in a $35 platform.

Is it a totally bad idea that merely having a low-cost platform in a different place can make the question on topic? Yes -- it's a horrible idea. But, ServerFault's admin team doesn't seem to have the intellectual prowess to tackle that.

Let's keep in mind we're talking about a site that is plagued with questions about [petty user-software like vim](https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/vim?sort=newest&pagesize=50). I'd contend if VIM was ontopic merely because it was on a server than the hardware platform running my ltsp should be on topic.