Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.
Raspberry Pi owners will likely be delighted to hear that they just got a big update to the default Linux installation for their boards. This new distribution of Linux, called Raspbian, is a port of Debian that takes better advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s hardware. According to the founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Eben Upton, “Users who are still using Debian squeeze will definitely want to switch to this, as it contains numerous tweaks and performance improvements to the firmware, kernel and applications.” The download link is here for the those who just want the goods!
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Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.
It's quite likely that most Raspberry Pis in the wild are running Raspbian, the stock operating system that's based on the Debian distribution of Linux. And if you've gone through the Raspberry Pi NOOBs installation process, you'll know that there are a few other choices for operating systems such as…
In a surprising move yesterday Hardkernel annoucned a Raspberry Pi compatible board called he ODROID-W. Tested against the latest NOOBS and Raspbian images the board is software compatible with the original Raspberry Pi.
I got my Raspberry Pi this week, and I have to say that despite the wait (or maybe because of it), the whole user experience of getting this running was exciting. I was reminded of when my Dad brought home our first "Fat Mac" in 1985 (Fat because it had…
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