Just spotted this on Twitter. Matt Manning of Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has shot a video review of the Kano OS beta. He covers a lot of what the OS gives you and gives his very frank and honest opinion…
Category: Operating systems
piCore review – TinyCore comes to the #RaspberryPi
TinyCore is a minimal Linux distro that gives you only what you need to boot and enter a graphical user interface. Linux User and Developer magazine has done a review of the Pi version (piCore) and you can read it…
A portable classroom on the #RaspberryPi with edX
Open-source online learning platform edX can now be run on the Raspberry Pi. Started by MIT & Harvard, the development team has released a new distro image that you can download and install on an SD card. It is at…
Advantage vPi for the #RaspberryPi offers VMware toolbox
Enterprise virtualisation solutions provider Xtravirt have developed a new Raspberry Pi SD card image download called Advantage vPi. Here’s what they say about it: Advantage vPi is a complete VMware vSphere management toolbox solution in-a-box designed to run on a…
Looping video automatically with the #RaspberryPi
Both Steve Hickson and Tim Schwartz have worked on SD card images to automatically play videos on a loop using omxplayer. Take a look at Steve’s blog post and also Tim’s blog post.
New Raspbian release includes Java and NOOBS v1.3 #raspberrypi
A much-improved and much-enlarged version of Raspbian is now the standard install for download from the Foundation’s site. The new release contains: Sonic Pi Improvements to Scratch PyPy 2.1 Pi-Face libraries The Oracle Java Development Kit This last item adds…
#RaspberryPi XBMC solutions compared
Over at Lifehacker, Thorin Klosowski has done a comparison of the three XBMC distros (Raspbmc, OpenELEC, XBian). It’s pretty comprehensive and well worth a read if you’re trying to decide between them. Read it here
Be a #RaspberryPi NOOBS v1.3 beta tester!
Just posting this before leaving work for the day. The Foundation are asking for beta testers for the newest version of NOOBS. Please head on over to their site to read more and become a beta tester yourself. This looks really…
Coder IDE for #RaspberryPi from Google Creative Labs
Google Creative Labs have created and released a new distro for the Raspberry Pi. It’s called ‘Coder’ and its sole purpose is to host a browser-based IDE to help you to learn and use HTML, CSS and Javascript to build…
openSUSE image built for the #RaspberryPi
Bernhard Wiedemann has been busy working on porting the openSUSE operating system to the Pi. He’s finally managed it and created an 82MB compressed minimal image. A link to download the image, and instructions on building the operating system from…