Category: Raspberry Pi
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Introducing the New, More Affordable Raspberry Pi 5: Now Available for Purchase
Launched less than a year ago, the Raspberry Pi 5 has quickly become a favorite among single-board computing enthusiasts and Linux ARM users due to its enhanced performance, increased memory, and the addition of a PCIe bus for expansion capabilities. Until now, availability of the Raspberry Pi 5 was limited to either a $60/£57 version…
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Meet the $60 Intel SBC: A Cheaper and Faster Alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5
If you love the idea of tinkering with a small, single-board computer (SBC) but need something with more power than most ARM-based offerings, you’re in luck. The new Radxa X4 from Radxa might pique your interest. Powered by an Intel N100 CPU with Intel UHD graphics, the Radxa X4 offers enhanced performance for both CPU…
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Affordable and Versatile: $10 Raspberry Pi 5 M.2 HAT Fits Perfectly in the Official Case
There are a lot of reasons to love the Raspberry Pi 5, and the inclusion of a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface for expansion is, for me, chief among them. I (hastily) bought a Pimoroni NVMe Base so I could use an M.2 SSD with my Pi 5 (a stonkingly faster experience than a slow-poke…
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Exciting New Update: Raspberry Pi OS Introduces Enhanced UI and Expanded Settings
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today released a new update to their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS operating system for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers adding numerous UI improvements and new settings. The new Raspberry Pi OS release, versioned 2024-07-04, updates the panel and the PCManFM file manager with support for customizing more than two desktops. The…
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Raspberry Pi 5 M.2 HAT+ Review: Seamless Performance Out of the Box
About six weeks ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the official M.2 HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 allowing us to finally have an internal disk drive for bigger storage capacity and a faster computing experience. The official M.2 HAT is called M.2 HAT+ promising up to 500 MB/s data transfer to and from NVMe…
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AlmaLinux OS Extends Support to the Newly Released Raspberry Pi 5
AlmaLinux developer Koichiro Iwao shared some exciting news today for those who want to run the free Red Hat Enterprise Linux alternative on a Raspberry Pi computer as the latest Raspberry Pi 5 model is officially supported. It has been a long-awaited development and challenging for the developers, but Raspberry Pi 5 support is now…
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Introducing the New $70 AI Add-On for Raspberry Pi 5: A Game Changer for Hobbyists and Developers
The AI boom continues as Raspberry Pi enters the market with a new, economical module for machine learning designed for their renowned single-board computer. The Raspberry Pi AI Kit, priced at $70, features the company’s self-designed M.2 Hat board paired with a power-efficient AI module from Hailo, a firm known for its low-power AI chips…
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How Linux 6.6 LTS Powers Raspberry Pi OS and Enhances Raspberry Pi 5 Support
The Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced a new version of its Raspberry Pi OS, built for their single-board computers, featuring a new kernel from the Linux 6.6 long-term support series, revised components, and various enhancements. The upgraded Raspberry Pi OS still comes on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” Operating system. It now runs on Linux…
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Official Release of MX Linux Raspberry Pi Edition for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 SBCs
The developers of the Debian-derived MX Linux distribution have launched a Raspberry Pi version, designed for those seeking to use the single-board computers. The MX Linux Raspberry Pi Edition was initially released in mid-November 2023 and has been trialed on Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 400, and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers. It comes along…
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Introducing the New Dark GTK Theme and Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support in Raspberry Pi OS
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched an updated version of their Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers, enhancing the support for the latest Raspberry Pi 5 model, introducing a new dark theme, upgrading various applications, and implementing new features. In the new Raspberry Pi OS release, version 2023-12-05, a new dark GTK…
