Dirk Broer
01-02-2015, 12:08 AM
So you bought a Raspberry Pi and now you think "Which OS shall I use?"
As my vendor did not supply it with a NOOB (New Out-Of-Box) Software SD card, I am offered the challenge of making a bootable SD card myself.
As the card in question holds 16GB on a chip no larger than a -small- SIM card I must be able to load it with a variety of OS-es -the Raspberry will even accept a 32GB card if I am too enthusiastic about this..
What are the possibilities? NOOB would supply you with these:
Raspbian (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest) (originally Debian Wheezy, later Debian Jessie)
Pidora (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/pidora_latest) (A Fedora Remix)
OPENELEC (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/openelec_latest) (An XBMC Media Centre)
RASPBMC (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbmc_latest) (An XBMC Media Centre)
RISC OS (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/riscos_latest) (A non-Linux distribution)
Now I personally don't care a rat's ass for the Media Centre possibilities of the Pi, and my -well educated- guess is that Risc OS (https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Welcome%20to%20RISC%20OS%20Pi) might not have a BOINC Client yet.
Is there more to the Pi? Yes there is:
Arch Linux ARM (http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi) (An Arch Linux Remix)
Minepeon (http://minepeon.com/index.php/Main_Page) (A Bitcoin mining special OS)
Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/downloads/)
OpenWrt (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi) (when you want your Pi to work as incredibly tiny wireless router, specially when you have a Model A+)
Raspberry Digital Signage (http://www.binaryemotions.com/raspberry-digital-signage/) (Debian Linux running on a Raspberry Pi and used in Web kiosks and digital signage)
FreeBSD for RPi (https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi) (FreeBSD!)
On my Raspberry Pi B+ I installed plain standard Raspbian based upon Debian Wheezy, on my Raspberry Pi2 I was a bit bolder and intalled Raspbian based upon Debian Jessie -that is I upgraded the Wheezy to Jessie, which took half a day. Got a far more recent Boinc Manager in the process (7.4.23 vs 7.0.27).
to be continued and updated....
As my vendor did not supply it with a NOOB (New Out-Of-Box) Software SD card, I am offered the challenge of making a bootable SD card myself.
As the card in question holds 16GB on a chip no larger than a -small- SIM card I must be able to load it with a variety of OS-es -the Raspberry will even accept a 32GB card if I am too enthusiastic about this..
What are the possibilities? NOOB would supply you with these:
Raspbian (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest) (originally Debian Wheezy, later Debian Jessie)
Pidora (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/pidora_latest) (A Fedora Remix)
OPENELEC (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/openelec_latest) (An XBMC Media Centre)
RASPBMC (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbmc_latest) (An XBMC Media Centre)
RISC OS (http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/riscos_latest) (A non-Linux distribution)
Now I personally don't care a rat's ass for the Media Centre possibilities of the Pi, and my -well educated- guess is that Risc OS (https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/Welcome%20to%20RISC%20OS%20Pi) might not have a BOINC Client yet.
Is there more to the Pi? Yes there is:
Arch Linux ARM (http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi) (An Arch Linux Remix)
Minepeon (http://minepeon.com/index.php/Main_Page) (A Bitcoin mining special OS)
Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/downloads/)
OpenWrt (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi) (when you want your Pi to work as incredibly tiny wireless router, specially when you have a Model A+)
Raspberry Digital Signage (http://www.binaryemotions.com/raspberry-digital-signage/) (Debian Linux running on a Raspberry Pi and used in Web kiosks and digital signage)
FreeBSD for RPi (https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi) (FreeBSD!)
On my Raspberry Pi B+ I installed plain standard Raspbian based upon Debian Wheezy, on my Raspberry Pi2 I was a bit bolder and intalled Raspbian based upon Debian Jessie -that is I upgraded the Wheezy to Jessie, which took half a day. Got a far more recent Boinc Manager in the process (7.4.23 vs 7.0.27).
to be continued and updated....