Choose Linux - Episodes Tagged with “Raspberry Pi”

20: Single Board Computers

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:15:00 -0700

We are joined by special guest Chz who is a long-time user of single board computers to talk about how we use boards like the Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, and ROCKPro64.

Special Guest: chzbacon.

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8: Ubuntu MATE on the Pi + The Linux Community

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 02 May 2019 00:15:00 -0700

We take Ubuntu MATE 18.04 for a test drive on the Raspberry Pi 3. How does it compare to Raspbian? After that, a fascinating discussion about the Linux community.

What are the high points and low points? What’s that magic ingredient that makes it feel so different from other tech communities?

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Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi Model B 2, 3 and 3+ — Ubuntu MATE 18.04.2 is available for Raspberry Pi Model B 2, 3 and 3+ with separate images for armhf (ARMv7 32-bit) and arm64 (ARMv8 64-bit).

4: Fedora Challenge And NextCloudPi

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:30:00 -0800

The distro challenges roll on with Fedora Workstation. Jason shares his thoughts on getting it up and running, feeling at home with vanilla Gnome, and why Fedora may be perfect place for his Magic the Gathering addiction.

Plus, the Raspberry Pi journey continues with NextCloudPi. Is creating a DropBox substitute really this easy?

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The Fedora 29 Linux Community Challenge — By popular demand, we're moving into March by exploring another community-powered distro with a corporate shadow (in Red Hat), and one that people have passionately encouraged me to try: Fedora Workstation.
Fedora Workstation — Fedora Workstation is a reliable, user-friendly, and powerful operating system for your laptop or desktop computer. It supports a wide range of developers, from hobbyists and students to professionals in corporate environments.
Create A Personal Home Backup Server With Raspberry Pi 3 — NextCloudPi is a standalone, self-contained OS that runs on your Raspberry Pi. It lets you sync and manually back up files from practically any device (including your phone and its camera instantly), and serve files to those devices.
NextCloudPi — NextCloudPi is a Nextcloud instance that is preinstalled and preconfigured, and includes a management interface with all the tools you need to self host your private data in a single package. This is an official open source community project that aims at making it easier for everyone to have control over their own data.
Net Scan — Network scanning and discovery along with port scanner.
Wonder Shaper — Wonder Shaper is a script that allow the user to limit the bandwidth of one or more network adapters. It does so by using iproute's tc command, but greatly simplifies its operation.

3: Raspberry Pi and Retro Gaming

Jupiter Broadcasting — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:00:00 -0800

Jason finally discovers the bottomless well of potential that is the Raspberry Pi, and talks about his first experience with Raspbian. Then Joe and Jason take a nostalgic deep dive into retro gaming on both the Raspberry Pi and the Pinebook.

Plus some final thoughts on openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap.

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Raspberry Pi — A small and affordable computer that you can use to learn programming
RetroPie — RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine
Lakka — Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms a small computer into a full blown retrogaming console.
Pinebook — An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook
openSUSE — The makers' choice for sysadmins, developers and desktop users.