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DietPi is a Linux OS tailored for single board computers and that provides a rather staggering collection of useful, graphical tools for easy administration of the system.

The Orange Pi Zero with the H2+ SoC is a Linux single board computer that is great for maker projects and IoT scenarios. This review provides performance details, how to set up Linux on the pi board, and details on the available expansion boards and case.

My way of celebrating Pi Day (March 14th = 3.14) was to take a look at an awesome little image for the Raspberry Pi called Minibian. A new edition of Minibian was released on 12 March 2017, updating the image with support for the latest RPi 3B and other improvements. Minibian is based on and fully compatible with the official Raspbian “Jesse” software. This article is a review and set up guide for Minibian, a minimalist linux image for the Raspberry Pi.

A look at HASSBian, a home automation system for the Raspberry Pi with Home Assistant server.

There is a lot of good work and potential in the latest Ubuntu MATE image for the Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, my experience with testing it out showed that it isn’t quite there yet to be considered as a serious alternative to Raspbian.

Set up an Orange Pi board as an inexpensive Time Machine server for backing up your Mac using Netatalk on Armbian Linux.

Setting up a Linux pi board as a retro gaming console with the latest RetrOrangePi is easy and inexpensive, as the this brief review and set up guide demonstrates.

Set up a free, private minecraft-like gaming server for your kids on your Linux Pi Board.

Setting up an Orange Pi for ad blocking is cheap, easy, and helps to put my mind at ease about limiting some unwanted ads and traffic to/from my home network.