A maker/programmer called Gerald decided that the Raspberry Pi was the perfect computer for senior citizens (a term I’m not totally sure I like all that much, but heigh-ho). He has created a new operating system distro called “Senior Pi” which…
Category: Operating systems
Squeeze Raspbian Jessie onto a 4GB card for use with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has a bunch of original Raspberry Pi Model Bs and accompanying 4GB SD cards. Rather than just throw these away and get new 8GB cards to fit the whopping 4.3GB Jessie image on, he decided to slim down…
Q4OS – a new Windows-like distro for the Raspberry Pi
Q4OS has announced that their operating system is now available for the Raspberry Pi. It’s not quite complete yet, and some features aren’t available, but it looks good and could prove a valuable alternative. Download the beta image from their…
New version of Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi – moves to “Jessie”
Exciting news on the operating system front this morning. Raspbian, the standard OS for the Raspberry Pi, now uses the Jessie version of Debian as a base. This has introduced several new improvements, chiefly among which are: sudo-less GPIO access…
LISP used to create a new operating system for the Raspberry Pi
Lukas F. Hartmann decided that there simply weren’t enough operating systems available for the Raspberry Pi and endeavoured to write a brand new one from scratch. Using his past experience, he has managed to create an alpha build of InterimOS…
Quake in a Box on the Raspberry Pi
“Quake in a Box” is a project that allows you to run a full QuakeWorld LAN server on your Raspberry Pi. It comes in the form on a downloadable distro image based on Arch Linux. Instructions are available here.
Network-wide ad blocker using a Raspberry Pi
Jacob Salmela has created a new version of Raspbian called ‘Pi Hole’. The operating system has been designed to be a DNS-server which blocks ads for your entire network. All you need to do is download the image, install it on an…
New Raspberry Pi podcast launches
Joe Ressington, Isaac Carter and Albert Hickey have teamed up to create “The Pi Podcast“. Their first episode is now online and is all to do with Ubuntu MATE, which is now available for the Pi. Listen to the podcast here.
Windows 10 IoT released publicly for the Raspberry Pi
A Windows-based operating system for the Raspberry Pi is now available publicly following a few months of developer-only trials. Windows 10 IoT is available here and, unlike the last few months, does not require any sign-ups. Here’s what BetaNews said about the…
Build a Raspberry Pi powered arcade console with an Arduino controller
Here’s a nice tutorial from Tyler Winegarner over at Make. It uses the PiPlay distro to give you an arcade emulator. You then add your controller in the form of an Arduino Esplora and configure your games accordingly. All the instructions for how…