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The Raspberry Pi OS has evolved considerably from being a Debian fork (Raspbian) into a mature operating system, just about staying ahead of competing distros. Unless you have a very specific purpose ...

Recently Raspberry Pi publicly announced the release of their new rpi-image-gen tool, which is advertised as making custom Raspberry Pi OS (i.e. Debian for specific Broadcom SoCs) images in a much ...

Samsung sees the popular Raspberry Pi board as a way for a potentially large number of enthusiasts to develop products with Tizen OS. For that purpose, the company initiated a port of Tizen 3.0 OS to ...

There is a new version of Raspberry Pi OS out now which comes with a new compositor to bring Wayland to all Raspberry Pi models. Raspberry Pi has announced the availability of a new version of its ...

Most recent Raspberry Pi single-board computers have 64-bit processors, but up until recently the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s custom Linux distribution designed for the small, inexpensive PCs was only ...

Debian 11, dubbed 'bullseye' and the successor to 'buster', arrived in August and now the makers of the Raspberry Pi have finally updated Raspberry Pi (RPi) OS to this version. The move to Debian 11 ...

The Raspberry Pi operating system has now been updated to support the newly released major version upgrade of Debian Bullseye. Although the implementation has taken a little longer than the Raspberry ...

A new release of the Raspberry Pi OS arrived last week. As usual, the release announcement gives a general overview of the most important additions and improvements, and the release notes contain a ...

Raspberry Pi has introduced and released the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. I happen to have four Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 devices on my bench along with a couple of Raspberry Pi Compute ...

Learn about some of the risks when choosing an alternative to a Raspberry Pi for your project. I have a lot of low-cost single-board computers (SBCs) at my house. And, I've written a number of ...