An operating system is the software that manages the Raspberry Pi.
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Can I install Android?
Is there an Android port for the Raspberry Pi, and if so, where can I find out more about it?
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How do I install new software?
I am aware that Linux distributions usually have 'package managers' to allow me to download and install software from the command line and that I should also be able to download and compile source ...
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Is it possible to run real time software?
I know it runs Linux and there are real time patches available for Linux. Would those patches work?
Has anybody tried another real-time-os on the Raspberry Pi?
The idea is to use the board for ...
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How do I install an OS image onto an SD card?
I have just ordered my Raspberry Pi, and I want to prepare my SD card. How do I install an OS image onto an SD card?
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How do I create a new user?
Are there any security implications for creating (or not creating) a new user?
If need be, how do I create a new user or change the default user?
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What is the simplest way to setup and run XBMC?
How can I get XBMC on my Raspberry Pi? I'm not particularly interested in running a specific operating system. My primary desire is to run XBMC on a Raspberry Pi.
According to this official post, ...
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How to set up swap space?
Raspberry Pi has only 256 MB of RAM, so I would like to use swap space (either on SD card or attached USB storage). How do I set it up?
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Using Raspberry Pi without a Linux OS?
I'm interested in using the Raspberry Pi as a pure embedded CPU unit, for the development of embedded applications. Since the Raspberry Pi has a powerful CPU with quite a bit of memory, it makes an ...
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Is it possible to dual boot from the SD card?
Say I wished to have Debian Squeeze and Arch Linux ARM on my SD card. Would it be possible to dual boot from Grub?
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What are the benefits of using Arch Linux over the standard Debian build?
From the Raspberry Pi downloads page:
Debian “squeeze”
If you’re just starting out, this is the image we recommend you use. It’s a reference root filesystem from Gray and Dom, containing ...
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Can I install Windows?
I recently bought a RPi and it came with Debian, which I think is a Linux distribution. I'm more used to Windows; can I install it?
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Can I install Ubuntu?
To my understanding, the Raspberry Pi supports Debian. Has anyone had any success running Ubuntu on it?
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Are there any non-Linux operating systems available?
Some variation of Linux is the de facto standard for Raspberry Pi. However, smaller, lesser known operating systems do exist and some would seem appropriate for such a small device.
Are any other ...
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Is there a Linux From Scratch (LFS) ARM equivalent
I'd like to demonstrate how it's possible to 'bootstrap' up from a near-bare installation of Linux to something useful and productive. The Tiny Core and LFS projects demonstrate this well. However ...
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Definitive List Of Operating Systems
Has anybody created, and is maintaining, a definitive list of operating systems that work with the Raspberry Pi?
I know of the distros listed on their site of course, but it could be beneficial to ...
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How do I upgrade Raspbian?
I have my RPi setup how I want, but I have an older version than what is currently available (2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.zip). How do I upgrade the kernel, firmware, etc?
I have upgraded some this ...
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Cambridge University Raspberry Pi Operating system development Guide Questions
I'm a high level app developer (C#, python) and I'd like to get my hands dirty with low level embedded application development. Cambridge University has posted a series of tutorials teaching you how ...
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Package browser to search for compiled software pre-install?
For any of the OSes that are compatible with the Raspberry Pi, are there any searchable databases that list the currently available packages that have been compiled for the OS?
I'm thinking of ...
