Last year, Sam Nazarko renamed his media player operating system Raspbmc to OSMC. Since then, his team has grown and work has accelerated on the new version and he has now announced that the first stable release of the image has been…
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Juplic – a music player for the Raspberry Pi
Dr Peter Kummel has developed Juplic which is a music player capable of being its own wi-fi hotspot or playing music from the Internet like a radio. The images are downloadable from his website.
Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry Pi made easy with Minera
Kurt Roesener has written a tutorial which gets you up-and-running doing Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry Pi. He uses a Linux distribution called Minera and takes you through downloading, installing and then using the image. Well worth a look if…
Sort-of boot the Raspberry Pi from a USB flash drive
Here’s an Instructable from “techno guy” with a misleading title. It teaches you how to set-up the Pi to start up from a USB drive which contains the main operating system image. Granted, you’ll still need the SD card in the…
Desktop GUI update for the Raspberry Pi
Simon Long from the Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced a big update for the standard desktop GUI. Improvements include: New interface for setting up network connections (including wi-fi). New interface for volume and audio settings. New interface for changing desktop…
Windows 10 IoT preview for Raspberry Pi 2 released
When the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched, there was much hoo-hah about it being able to run Windows 10, and that it would be free. After much speculation, discussion, deliberation and outright mis-information, we eventually found out that the Pi…
WAN optimization device uses Raspberry Pi
Kiran Kankipati has posted to the Raspberry Pi Google+ community about TrafficSqueezer which is a WAN optimization device that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. They’ve provided a downloadable OS image for easy set-up and it relies on using a…
Running Ubuntu Snappy Core on Raspberry Pi
Ferdinand Thommes has written a guide to installing and using the Ubuntu Snappy Core distro on the Pi. It’s only a small guide but it shows you how to update Snappy and also how to roll it back if the…
Android on the Raspberry Pi 2?
Someone has been working on porting Android 5.1 (Lollipop) to the Raspberry Pi. It only runs on the Pi 2 (due to the different processor) and I’m not sure how much of it is functional. I’ve not had time to…
Kano OS now works on the Raspberry Pi 2
The Kano team has just announced that their operating system now works on the Raspberry Pi 2. Going along with standard Raspbian, they are offering a single download that works across all Pis. You can read more about what the…