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The MagPi becomes the official Raspberry Pi magazine

  • Raspberry Pi Foundation; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Mar 2, 2015 9:09 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Raspberry Pi
The MagPi is now the official Raspberry Pi magazine (and it's still free to download). It offers the latest news, reviews, features and tutorials dedicated to the world’s favourite credit card-sized PC.

Eben Upton: Google’s Eric Schmidt helped inspire Raspberry Pi Model A+ price cut

  • Raspberry Pi Today; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Nov 20, 2014 5:47 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Raspberry Pi
While the Raspberry Pi has always been cheap, the Foundation didn’t rest on their laurels with the Model A+ price. In fact, Google’s Eric Schmidt had a hand in making it cheaper…

3 amazing Raspberry Pi-powered gadgets we can’t wait to try

  • Raspberry Pi Today; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Nov 18, 2014 2:18 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Raspberry Pi
There are some seriously cool Raspberry Pi-powered products on the way. Here are 3 that make us want to throw money at our screens…

Raspberry Pi Model A+ is out now. It's 20% cheaper, 24% shorter and consumes 45% less power

  • Raspberry Pi Today; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Nov 10, 2014 11:03 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Raspberry Pi
You can buy a Raspberry Pi Model A+ right now. It costs around $20/£15, it’s just 56mm long, 12mm thick and consumes just 200mA

Raspberry Pi-powered in-car computer project shifts up a gear

  • Raspi.Today; By Phil King (Posted by russb78 on Sep 8, 2014 2:31 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Raspberry Pi
After watching classic TV shows such as Knight Rider and Street Hawk in his youth, IT professional and Raspberry Pi enthusiast Derek Knaggs was inspired to create a low-cost in-car computer using a Raspberry Pi. Here's how he did it…

5 things you need to know about the Raspberry Pi’s Epiphany web browser

Epiphany is a new web browser for the Raspberry Pi. It’s been modified to be faster, smoother and more powerful than the previous web browser, Midori, meaning it possible to watch 720p YouTube videos and browse more Java-heavy websites

The making of the Raspberry Pi Model B+

The Director of Hardware at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, James Adams, walks through the making of the new and improved Raspberry Pi Model B+ and reveals details of the Model A+…

Raspberry Jam served to 35 young hackers at PyCon UK

PyCon UK’s Raspberry Jam played host to 35 children from around the country. It was a first taste of coding for many of the kids and a valuable lesson for how we can revolutionise school education…

Synology DS213j NAS review – a worthy upgrade

  • Linux User & Developer; By Gareth Halfacree (Posted by russb78 on Jul 9, 2013 8:07 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Is Synology’s latest-generation two-bay Linux-powered NAS worth the upgrade for owners of previous models?

Adapteva announces Raspberry Pi competitor

  • Linux User & Developer; By Gareth Halfacree (Posted by russb78 on Sep 28, 2012 1:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Semiconductor start-up Adapteva has announced its kickstarter plan to create an open-source experimentation board with a massive amount of parallel processing power.

Sabayon 9 KDE review

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Koen Vervloesem (Posted by russb78 on Jun 21, 2012 6:56 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
If you have tried Gentoo in the past but its compile times have put you off using it, maybe try again with Sabayon 9 KDE, which couples Italian elegance with Gentoo’s raw power…

Selling icons on the Windows desktop

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Simon Brew (Posted by russb78 on May 24, 2012 2:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
The software ecosystem has interesting tentacles, says Simon Brew, as he investigates the trend of selling icons onto increasingly bloated Windows computers…

Free software and the necessity for idealism

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Hillesley (Posted by russb78 on May 23, 2012 6:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Free software idealism is a necessary and desirable part of the software landscape, says Richard Hillesley…

Chakra Linux 2012.04 review – one to watch

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Gareth Halfacree (Posted by russb78 on May 2, 2012 10:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
The second Archimedes release of Arch spin-off Chakra Linux brings some major changes and a new office suite, but not everything has been improved…

The conflict between video on the web and open standards

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Hillesley (Posted by russb78 on Apr 30, 2012 6:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Few web video standards are truly open or free, and the major players have no interest in pushing them, says Richard Hillesley…

Ubuntu 12.04 review – precisely what we feared

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Apr 27, 2012 12:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise Pangolin’, Canonical’s biggest ever LTS has arrived, but can the latest round of improvements win over its critics? Linux User’s editor, Russell Barnes, takes a look at the broader view…

Fedora 17 beta review – Miraculously beefy

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Rob Zwetsloot (Posted by russb78 on Apr 25, 2012 10:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Fedora 17 ‘Beefy Miracle’ hits Beta, showcasing the next version of Fedora, as well as the future of open source software. Rob Zwetsloot takes it for a spin…

Ubuntu 12.04 – Jane Silber talks Unity, community and ‘continuous computing’

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Rory MacDonald (Posted by russb78 on Apr 24, 2012 2:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview
Join us as we speak to Canonical CEO, Jane Silber, about the community’s perception of arrogance, the fiery reception of Unity and Canonical’s plans to dominate much more than just your desktop…

How to set up the Raspberry Pi

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Liam Fraser (Posted by russb78 on Apr 23, 2012 4:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Liam Fraser, creator of the popular Raspberry Pi Tutorials YouTube series and System Administrator for the Raspberry Pi Foundation shows us how to set up the Raspberry Pi and write our first Python ‘Hello World’ application…

Raspberry Pi review – the price is right, but the software is not…

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Gareth Halfacree (Posted by russb78 on Apr 16, 2012 11:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
It is selling faster than they can make it, with global demand proving insatiable, but can the Raspberry Pi live up to the hype? Gareth Halfacree reveals all…

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