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 “Internet of Things” as it’s a great language to use for that purpose.
- New graphical package manager – terrific stuff. Now you can install and uninstall all different kinds of software without issuing command-line instructions.
- New Python library GPIO Zero is installed by default.
- Scratch has been updated.
- Epiphany has been updated with better support for streaming video services.
- Updated configuration app – new wait-for-network option.
This looks interesting, but personally I am not keen on Graphic
visual development tools like node.red and scratch. I appreciate
their power and ease of use.
I feel that Raspberrypi.org ought to create Jessie, as standard, that contains only the necessary modules and allow users
to simply install the tools that one needs over apt-get .
In fact there is a Jessie light version, but why have 2 OS that need
keeping up to date. Use the light version as standards and update
according to needs.
A simple bash script could do install required tools very easily. Libreoffice, Wolfram , scratch, node.red etc are mostly unwanted extras.
However I do use 16GB SD cards as standard, so space is not a problem.
BD