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Will Raspbian move to 64-bit?
given that the processor is 64 bits, isn't it obvious that running the OS in 64 bits will be better in every way?
No actually, it's not. In some ways, running a 64 bit operating system could ...
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Make a Fallout Pipboy from an Rpi
Buy yourself a smartphone, you'll get "Android OS with camera, Bluetooth, gyro, GPS, and SIM card and with a lot of programmable buttons and LEDs" -- all already included, working and with plenty of ...
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Will Raspbian move to 64-bit?
It's worth noting that the situation is different for ARM and Intel/AMD. That's because the switch to x86_64 was also used as an opportunity to update the badly-aging architecture, basically crippled ...
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How do I install an OS image onto an SD card?
There is a tool called Etcher for Windows, Linux, and Mac. It has a simple GUI.
A screenshot from the website:
(source: etcher.io)
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Can you run pfsense on a Raspberry Pi 3?
There seems to be Raspberry PI support in the pfsense github repository. See pfsense repository.
For raspBSD see RaspBSD.
It seems feasible to compile pfSense for the Raspberry PI.
I think it would ...
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Do I still need rpi-update if I am using the latest version of Raspbian?
Meanwhile the kernel is part of the raspberrypi-kernel-package in Raspbian.
So rpi-update is not needed anymore to update the kernel.
There are several kernels in the package, that means it works on ...
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Can you run pfsense on a Raspberry Pi 3?
-Update Aug 2017-
Unfortunately pfSense has no interest in creating arm based images.
pfSense HAD no interest in porting over to an ARM based version because the BSD kernel was not stable on ARM yet....
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Can I have 1 processor core just for my program?
Dedicating a core is probably overkill.
I suggest you try my pigpio library. By default it will time GPIO level changes to within 10µs.
As a quick test I suggest you look at this Python example, ...
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Do I still need rpi-update if I am using the latest version of Raspbian?
The answer marked as correct is in fact outdated, and in a problematic way: rpi-update will update the firmware to the latest published version, which has to be considered "not stable". So following ...
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Make a Fallout Pipboy from an Rpi
I want to run a Windows OS or Android OS
Unfortunately, this is not possible. Windows just isn't supported at all on the Pi (only a lesser version called Windows 10 IoT Core, which isn't much like ...
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Which distro for Raspberry Pi Zero W?
If you don't need the graphical capabilities of the full Raspbian distro, I would recommend Raspbian Lite. Raspbian, has the largest user base and hence the most projects and tutorials available. The ...
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Installing CentOS 7 on a Raspberry Pi
Linux / OSX
Download the image from here
Extract the .xz file using any of the following methods
Tar
tar xf CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1511-RaspberryPi2.img.xz
Unxz
unxz CentOS-Userland-7-...
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How do I install Arch Linux?
Jivings answer holds true if you happen to have an image of Arch Linux around. As of now however such images are no longer issued by Arch Linux. Instead the full file system is provided as a .tar.gz ...
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How to configure Raspberry Pi in my car
Powering the Raspberry Pi
You should supply your Raspberry Pi via its microUSB port. It takes 5V and you should make sure it can draw up to 2A - that should be sufficient, if you don't plug in too ...
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How to configure Raspberry Pi in my car
4 things:
proper shutdown: what is meant by "proper shutdown" in @Fantilein's answer is what we call a "software shutdown." You need to issue a "shutdown" command in the OS, either via the command-...
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How to make an image file from scratch
It is possible to create an empty image for a Raspberry Pi. Then you can copy an operating system with a boot and root partition to it and boot. To fill the empty image you can use any usable file ...
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How do I create a new user?
To add a new user in raspbian:
sudo useradd -m -G pi,sudo,gpio,audio,video steve
Then:
sudo passwd steve
Explaination:
-m - Create a new home directory
-G group1,group2,group3 - Add the user to ...
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Freeing up cache when memory is low
Before I ran a few commands on my raspberry pi I had less than 4 MB of memory left!
Wrong. You had 76.5 MB left.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: ...
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Will Tails OS work on Raspberry Pi 3?
No, it will not run on any version of the RPi. Looking at the link you provided, it specifically states that the OS requires an x86 processor, and that ARM is unsupported.
All versions of the RPi use ...
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Will Raspbian move to 64-bit?
I am sure there are already people running Debian Aarch64 (ARMv8) on the Pi 3; it certainly would not be that hard for many people (see here for some clues about that might work)1 although for most ...
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Can you run pfsense on a Raspberry Pi 3?
As of February, 2019: Neither pfSense nor OPNSense have released images for the RPi:
pfSense is only available for the amd64 architecture and the
Netgate ADI.
OPNSense is only available for the i386 &...
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Install one Windows (operating system) on 4 Raspberry and with one monitor
Nope. This isn't going to happen. You're describing attempting to run an x86 operating system (Windows) on a cluster of ARM devices. Wrong chipset, with CPUs which are too slow, linked together in non-...
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Why are system logs not rotating?
I know I'm a little late to the game here, but since I found a reason for this not working for me, I wanted to help others:
This happened to me too, and I discovered a resolution yesterday.
Check to ...
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OS from scratch on the Pi 2?
It should be mostly fine; instead of compiling for ARMv6 you are compiling for ARMv7. With regard to the first few lessons involving the LEDs, on the Pi 2 these are the same as the + models, which is ...
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Recover pi 2 from wrong kernel build?
All the boot files are on a FAT32 sector, which is readable and writeable by all common operating systems.
You can place the SD card in an SD card reader, delete the bad kernel, and rename the good ...
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Will Raspbian move to 64-bit?
As part of the launch publicity I saw it mentioned that one concern is the effort required to maintain two separate code bases (32 and 64 bit). the Adafruit PI3 Launch video also mentioned that the ...
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Can you run pfsense on a Raspberry Pi 3?
I Think it will eventually be possible if you consider the new SG-1000, an ARM base pfsense appliance:
https://netgate.com/products/sg-1000.html
Also, I think installing it on a raspberry pi would ...
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Can I have 1 processor core just for my program?
You can lock your program to one core using schedutils as described in this Cyberciti article:
sudo apt-get install schedutils
sudo taskset -c 3 -p 13545 # Lock PID 13545 to core 3
Other processes ...
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Make a Fallout Pipboy from an Rpi
You can't run a traditional Windows OS or a usable Android OS on the Pi.
You can run something called Windows IOT which is not a desktop system.
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How can I add another Operating System onto NOOBS?
Yes it is possible (since NOOBS 1.3). To do so, plug in a physical keyboard and hold shift during boot. You should see the NOOBS GUI and should be able to select an OS to install (ie Raspbian). Let ...
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