What better way to spend the holidays, and prepare for the New Year, than with a new release of Raspbian (Debian GNU/Linux specifically for the Raspberry Pi), and a new NOOBS package? For those who ...

There's plenty of excitement in the Raspberry Pi world this week: the big news is the announcement of the Raspberry Pi 2 hardware - the long-awaited and much-anticipated successor to the immensely ...

The Raspberry Pi isn't terribly complicated to set up, but it's still a bit daunting to new users, especially if you've never used Linux before. Fortunately, there's now a simpler setup solution with ...

Chapter 2 of our new ebook "Real Raspberry Pi" covers the ground that every book on the subject has to - connecting up and getting started. Unlike other accounts, this one takes you into customizing ...

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, hackable mini-computer designed to support open source software and enable students, hackers, and just about anyone to learn to use a computer. But the truth of the ...

If you’re new to the Raspberry Pi, that tiny $35 computer we all love, there’s a good chance you’ve downloaded (or purchased an SD card that includes) NOOBS. NOOBS makes getting started with Pi easy, ...

My house is full of odds and sods, and ironically often don’t include what I actually need. It was so with the two 5V USB power adapters that both only offered 500mA instead of the 700mA needed to get ...

There are many Linux-based operating systems available for Raspberry Pi that you can install directly, but if you’re new to the Pi, I suggest NOOBS, the official OS installer for Raspberry Pi that ...

What is really surprising is that it is easy to customize NOOBS. The key idea is that the operating systems that the user is presented with are all stored in folders in the \os directory. If you look ...