Review of new Raspberry Pi images

RE: Review of new Raspberry Pi images

e14 Contributor — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:26:12 GMT

Does the Raspian Wheezy OS give you access to the full repository of Debian packages ? Ubuntu too ? I'm going to be wanting to install Teamviewer 7 (or something) to access the Pi from my PC over ethernet, and Samba to access network shares. I don't know if the ARM architecture means each package has to be specially rebuilt or whether that all happens at some lower common level.

A quick run down of the installed packages would be good. 440 MB download implies quite a lot of stuff that I probably won't want. Is there a stripped down version that just gets you to the desktop ?

Will it boot off a USB stick ?

RE: Review of new Raspberry Pi images

fustini — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:52:26 GMT

FYI - Raspbian "Wheezy" is now the officially recommended image by the Raspberry Pi Foundation:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1605

RE: Review of new Raspberry Pi images

Montala — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:47:07 GMT

Hi Drew,

Nearly two weeks and now comments... so let me be the first!

Have you (or anyone else for that matter, given Puppy a try yet? Although designated as alpha 3, it is stated to be virtually at beta level, and is certainly worth a look... do have a look at the 'config.txt' file first though!

More details (and download links) can be found at: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=10964

It certainly surprised me! [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-6d854365-e0e6-4f27-a330-3126e9473cca/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]