Raspbian Jessie updated to include Node-RED and other enhancements

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.

1 comment for “Raspbian Jessie updated to include Node-RED and other enhancements

  1. 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

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