Matteo Trevisan has customised the Raspbian operating system to look as close as possible to the AMIGA 1200. You can download the OS image from his site or read more here.
Category: Operating systems
Make an audiophile music player with Volumio on a Raspberry Pi
Trevor Appleton has written a great tutorial about using the Volumio operating system to create a music player with a Raspberry Pi. This is a great piece of software and easy enough to get going. If you’re an audiophile, you…
Auto-run a script on start-up/boot on a Raspberry Pi using systemd
Big thanks to Matt Hawkins for this one – I needed to use it this morning! Matt Hawkins has documented the new way of getting boot-time scripts to run. On the Jessie version of Raspbian, instead of using /etc/rc.local like…
Use WICD to set-up wifi on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie Lite
Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3 3D printed chassis, wanted to set-up wifi on his Pi Zero. He downloaded Raspbian Jessie Lite (the cut-down version of Raspbian now offered by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) but found that…
Raspbian Jessie updated to include Node-RED and other enhancements
Simon Long has continued his great work on the base operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The latest update includes the following: The Node-RED visual development environment is installed by default. Especially great news for those who are into the…
Lite version of Raspbian Jessie available from Raspberry Pi
In a surprise, though welcome, move, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has made available a slimmed-down version of the Raspbian operating system image. I haven’t tried it myself, but I imagine it does away with most, if not all, of the bundled…
Porting Inferno OS to the Raspberry Pi
LynxLine Labs has ported Inferno OS to the Raspberry Pi. The operating system, which was developed in 1996 by Bell Labs, was supposed to be similar to Java – a cross-platform VM environment. If you want the full story of…
Minibian updated to Jessie for the Raspberry Pi
Luca Soltoggio maintains the Minibian OS – it is a cut-down version of the Raspbian operating system which gets rid of a lot of the stuff that hobbyists don’t often use. He has just announced that Minibian has now been updated to Jessie. If…
New Ubuntu release for the Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu MATE 15.10 for the Raspberry Pi has been released. You can download the image from this page. The guys over at Pi Podcast have covered the release on their latest podcast and gave it a big thumbs-up. GPIO even works on…
Team brings SailfishOS to the Raspberry Pi with a DIY tablet
A team that call themselves “SailPi” has ported the SailfishOS to the Raspberry Pi. Using it, they’ve put together a DIY touchscreen tablet using the Raspberry Pi’s DSI screen. They’ve then made it portable by using a 20000mAh powerbank and a…