RaspyFi is an open source linux distribution. According to their site, “it will transform your Raspberry Pi into an audiophile source, in 10 minutes without hassles. It comes ready to play, and it’s compatible with almost every USB DAC available.”…
Category: Operating systems
Raspbmc for the #RaspberryPi July update
The well-known and much-used media centre distro Raspbmc has just had an update. Read all about the changes
New distro based on Wheezy for the #RaspberryPi – pipaOS
It’s been a bit quiet on the distro front recently, but here’s news of a brand new distro based on Debian Wheezy. It’s called pipaOS and features the following (the most impressive of which is the 10-second boot-time!): Fully functional…
Pidora and Python on the #RaspberryPi – a quick look
Francois Dion has been looking at the Pidora distro and seeing if Python will work on it. In short, it doesn’t totally work yet, but have a read of his blog post to hear more about it.
Multi-Boot Your #RaspberryPi with BerryBoot
Jason Fitzpatrick has worked with BerryBoot to work out how to have more than one operating system on your Pi’s SD card. Read about it here
Bare metal assembly language chess on the #RaspberryPi
Xu Ji, Bora Mollamustafaoglu and Gun Pinyo from Imperial College have created an assembly language chess game that runs on the Pi, without an operating system. There is a course on this kind of bare metal programming from Alex Chadwick of the…
XBian launch 1.0 Beta 1 for #RaspberryPi
XBian, one of the XBMC distros, has just announced their first Beta release. You can read more and download the distro from here. You can also update from the last alpha if you prefer.
Penetration testing distros and install kits for the #RaspberryPi
Jay Turla, a writer for the Infosec Institute, has done a great round-up of Linux distros and apps that will work on the Raspberry Pi to carry out network penetration tests. Read more here
Whistle-stop guide to #RaspberryPi NOOBS
The New-Out-Of-Box-System for the Pi was released a few weeks ago. You can download it here. Matthew Manning from Rapsberry Pi IV Beginners has done a very quick guide to how to use it:
Review of Rasplex for #RaspberryPi
Matt at TechMadeEasy.co.uk has written a very positive review of Rasplex, the new kid-on-the-block for Raspberry Pi media centre users. Read the review now