Based on Arch, arkOS is an operating system I’ve only just noticed. It sounds very promising for those who want to use their Pi as a home server. Here’s what the developers say about arkOS: arkOS is a system for…
Category: Operating systems
Foundation releases new images of top three OSs for #RaspberryPi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced new images for the three main operating systems (Raspbian, Debian and Arch) for the Pi. They include recent firmware and kernel updates. Download them here
Fedora returns to the #RaspberryPi with Pidora
With a new, floating-point-enabled, version, Fedora is making a valiant return to the Raspberry Pi. It’s history on the Pi has been somewhat mixed but hopefully with this new version they’ve addressed some of the issues and concerns Read more…
NOOBS : the #RaspberryPi New Out Of Box System
We had a great time at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on Saturday (full report coming soon). We had 4 visitors from the Foundation and it was great to meet them. One of the Foundation people, Gordon Hollingworth (their Head of…
Firefox OS for #RaspberryPi now available
Philipp Wagner has managed to get the new Firefox OS built and working on a Raspberry Pi. This is an immense achievement as it will truly give us another ‘flavour’ of OS for the Pi. At the moment, the OS…
Slackware ARM on a #RaspberryPi
I don’t think I’ve blogged this before. It’s always nice to see a different distro on the Pi. This time, it’s Slackware’s turn. Read more and get the distro here
Distro Super Test – #RaspberryPi Edition from Linux User magazine
The Linux User & Developer magazine website has just published their test of all the main Linux distros for the Raspberry Pi. They cover Raspbian, Arch, Fedora, SliTaz, Gentoo and RiscOS and give (very) honest opinions about all of them.…
Emulate Arduinos on the #RaspberryPi for real-time readings
This is a bit complicated to understand, so I’ll just quote the relevant bits from the Space Apps Challenge page. Proof of concept that threads in a Real Time Operating System for the Raspberry Pi can emulate various Arduinos with…
How Raspbian was built for the #RaspberryPi
I came across this nice little article about the creation of Raspbian, the OS of choice for the Raspberry Pi. Very interesting read, particularly the part about how Raspbian was compiled for the Pi without having any Pis to use. Read more…
PiMAME gaming and emulator OS for the #RaspberryPi gets official site – www.pimame.org
Shea Silverman has launched an official site for PiMAME, the gaming and emulator distro for the Raspberry Pi. This is a great project from Shea and if you haven’t tried it out yet, get yourself over there and enjoy the retro…