Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

Thank you,

Dale


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Hi Dale;

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am
looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

Right now, on the Pi that's hosting PiBBS, I am running Dietpi 'bullseye'. I chose this because I wanted minimal overhead, so that my various projects
would have as much resources as the Pi3B+ can provide.

I also have a Pi4B hooked up to my bedroom TV, on which I run multiple OSes: PiOS, RetroPi, and OpenElec, depending on the activity.

Cheers!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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Hello Dale!

Wednesday January 19 2022 12:59, you wrote to ALL:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am
looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

Thank you,

Here on a 3B+ just upgraded to Bullseye (Debian ?) from Buster (raspian or similar) but not sure it is for the better :)

I do not this kit often far too slow for me even with a USB connected HDD.


Vincent

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Re: OS used
By: Dale Barnes to ALL on Wed Jan 19 2022 12:59 pm

Howdy!

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.
Any info would be great.

I may be a little crazy, but I've got Gentoo going on a 400 as a bit of a test. (Have Raspberry Pi OS on another card as well)
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On 1/19/22 10:59 PM, Adam Clark wrote:

I may be a little crazy, but I've got Gentoo going on a 400 as a bit
of a test.

I successfully did an emerge world empty tree deep on a Pi 3. It took a
while, but it worked just fine.

I did have a chunk of steal sitting on the CPU as a large heat sink.

It took multiple days to complete but it did so without any problem.



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Dale Barnes <nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org> wrote:

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

PiOS Bullseye 64-bit, sometimes 32-bit because it has free Mathematica, sometimes Manjaro because I want to know more about it (and as a rolling
distro it has all the latest & greatest).

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Re: Re: OS used
By: Grant Taylor to Adam Clark on Thu Jan 20 2022 08:42 pm

I successfully did an emerge world empty tree deep on a Pi 3. It took a while, but it worked just fine.
I did have a chunk of steal sitting on the CPU as a large heat sink.
It took multiple days to complete but it did so without any problem.

Yeah, it's nice to see it work. I have been using distcc to utilize a more powerful machine, too. Seems to help to a degree.

I got as far as getting a window manager up, but I have to do something better for a screen, as the 7" touch screen I use with it is less than ideal.
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Dale Barnes <nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org> wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Operating_systems

Personally just Linux. Specifically I prefer Tiny Core Linux
(PiCore) but often use RPi OS when I just want things to work.

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On a sunny day (Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:59:38 +1200) it happened nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes) wrote in <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to >support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

Thank you,

Dale

As time goes by

Raspi 1 I think?
192.168.178.73
server for serveral things,
RTL-SDR sticks dump1090 (receives airplane data), and weather station from garden, ssh only, radiation monitor via /dev/ttyS0, GPS via /dev/ttyAMA0, etc etc is a Raspi 1 I think?
Linux 3.6.11+ #371 PREEMPT Thu Feb 7 16:31:35 GMT 2013 armv6l

192.168.178.1
4G router (USB stick) firewall, SMS, ssh only, also a Raspi 1 ?
Linux 3.12.35+ #730 PREEMPT Fri Dec 19 18:31:24 GMT 2014 armv6l

192.168.178.95
security recorder video + audio, chromium browser, 3 TB USB harddisk, 4 GB RAM, HDMI
Linux 4.19.75-v7l+ #1270 SMP Tue Sep 24 18:51:41 BST 2019 armv7l

192.168.178.99
mostly backup, 4 TB USB harddisk, 8 GB RAM, HDMI + ssh
Linux 5.4.79-v7l+ #1373 SMP Mon Nov 23 13:27:40 GMT 2020 armv7l

All OSs have been modified by me,
All run fvwm with 9 virtual desktops all running a color rxvt terminal, also xfm filemanager (icons to click).

Some have uptimes 77 days and more (all are on UPS except ..1, but can also be, but that one is only on when I am home using internet.

No problems, no crashes

Largest uptime was 250 days or so for 192.168.178.73, then I had to switch it off when moving house

I do not normally 'update' things that work.
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ooops, I forgot one, 192.168.178.71, as it is off ATM
the one in my clock, also old raspi (ssh only),
http://panteltje.com/pub/clock_IMG_0161.JPG
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/raspberry_pi_FDS132_matrix_display_driver/index.html

How those things evolve:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_matrix_working-on_Raspberry_Pi_IMG_4123.JPG
;-)

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On 19/01/2022 00:59, Dale Barnes wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

Thank you,

Dale

Ubuntu 64, Ubuntu 32, Raspbian
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In message <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>
nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes) wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking
to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

RISC OS.

David
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In message <e1554bae59.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>
nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes) wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking >> to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

RISC OS.

David

- and RISCOS here also, but I infinitely prefer the version for the
BeagleBoard


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From RISCOS 5.29 on a BeagleBoard-xM and Raspberry Pi2B
and Linux on a PandaBoard ES, Raspberry Pi3B+ and Pi4B+
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Devuan Chimaera here on a Pi4 - upgraded from Beowulf

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On 1/20/22 8:42 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:

I successfully did an emerge world empty tree deep on a Pi 3.  It took a while, but it worked just fine.

I'd like to clarify I did the compiling on the Pi 3.

Yes, I am aware of DistCC and the likes. But the point of my comment
was that the Pi 3 is capable of doing it's own full emerge world empty tree.



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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

On 1/19/22 10:59 PM, Adam Clark wrote:

I may be a little crazy, but I've got Gentoo going on a 400 as a bit
of a test.

I successfully did an emerge world empty tree deep on a Pi 3. It took a while, but it worked just fine.

I did have a chunk of steal sitting on the CPU as a large heat sink.

It took multiple days to complete but it did so without any problem.

It helps if you can offload compiling to a more-powerful box. Gentoo makes setting up cross-compiling toolchains easy, so you can qemu-chroot from an amd64 host into an aarch64 guest (for instance) to build for a Raspberry Pi
3 or 4. Use the fast system to create binary packages which are then
installed on the RPi. Depending on what you're building, it might still
take a day or two to do a full rebuild, but that's better than the week or
more it'll take on the RPi (and there are packages like Chromium that won't build on the Pi or will shred your swap trying due to insufficient RAM).

(I also do something similar, but without the cross-compiling bit, to keep
the Rock Pi X plugged into my TV up-to-date. The Ryzen 5 2600 in my server blows the doors off the Atom x5-Z8350 in the Rock Pi X.)

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In article <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>, Dale Barnes <URL:mailto:nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org> wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

Raspian
RISCOS
Puppy Linux x3

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On 19/01/2022 00:59, Dale Barnes wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

Support them for what? If you don't mind saying.

Most of mine are still running vanilla 32 bit Raspbian Buster, but a
couple of the Pi 4B's are running the 64 bit kernel with the 32 bit
Raspbian user land, and a raspbian-nspawn-64 container.

I did run 64 bit SUSE at one point, for 64 bit evaluation, before raspbian-nspawn-64 came out. A couple or older ones ran Libre Electric
and Kodi, before I upgraded them, and standard Raspbian was able to play
media as well.

I haven't upgraded to Bullseye yet as I've got quite a few cameras using raspimjpeg which requires the old camera system rather than libcamera.
Although it is possible reinstall the old system, which I'll have to try
out on a spare Pi.

Ironically I want to get a Sony starviz camera, and that's only
supported by libcamera, so I need to find an alternative to raspimjpeg,
as it doesn't look like it will be a quick job to upgrade that to use libcamera.

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In message <b01352ae59.News@poppy-land.fslife.co.uk>
Mark J <mark@poppyland.plu$.com.invalid> wrote:

In message <e1554bae59.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>
nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes)
wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

RISC OS.

David

- and RISCOS here also, but I infinitely prefer the version for the BeagleBoard

Why so? They all provide identical features and facilities (for any
given version), don't they?

I used to use a BBxM until it suddenly died. I looked at replacing it,
but then realised that a Pi would be not only cheaper but quicker too.

I still have a BB running RISC OS as my doorbell server.

David
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nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes) writes:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

I run Raspbian 10 on a 3B+ and Ubuntu 21.04 LTS on a CM3+. I wanted to
run Debian on the CM3+ but it didn't boot, maybe due to the Waveshare
carrier board I'm using.
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On 22 Jan 2022 at 16:51:08 GMT, "David Higton" <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <b01352ae59.News@poppy-land.fslife.co.uk>
Mark J <mark@poppyland.plu$.com.invalid> wrote:

In message <e1554bae59.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>
nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes)
wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am
looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

RISC OS.

David

- and RISCOS here also, but I infinitely prefer the version for the
BeagleBoard

Why so? They all provide identical features and facilities (for any
given version), don't they?

I used to use a BBxM until it suddenly died. I looked at replacing it,
but then realised that a Pi would be not only cheaper but quicker too.

I still have a BB running RISC OS as my doorbell server.

Curious about the doorbell - isn't it annoying in the case of non-visitors (posties etc.)?

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David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <b01352ae59.News@poppy-land.fslife.co.uk>
Mark J <mark@poppyland.plu$.com.invalid> wrote:

In message <e1554bae59.DaveMeUK@BeagleBoard-xM>
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <428667662@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org>
nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes)
wrote:

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am
looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

RISC OS.

David

- and RISCOS here also, but I infinitely prefer the version for the
BeagleBoard

Why so? They all provide identical features and facilities (for any
given version), don't they?

I used to use a BBxM until it suddenly died. I looked at replacing it,
but then realised that a Pi would be not only cheaper but quicker too.

I still have a BB running RISC OS as my doorbell server.

David

Yes, mine is an -xM also. It is getting on a bit I agree, and I don't know where I will go when it eventually dies. Why do I prefer the RISCOS
variant on a BB? A puzzling question ... Back in the 80's, as with many
Acorn users, I went through many new computer upstarts before settling on
a BBC A. That, perhaps, is why, in my early days in Self-Employment, I
went through several cars before, eventually, settling for Land-Rover.
Both Acorn and Land-Rover did a job that I required, and both I could understand, modify, and repair; and both I stuck with as they were
upgraded. RISCOS in a Kinetic, and a LR in the last Series III was my sticking-point, the pinnacle of my satisfaction. The Kinetic died in a horrendous lightning strike which the LR ignored because it has minimal electronics, so the Kinetic was ultimately replaced by RISCOS on the
Beagle, and it seems to fulfil my needs just as RISCOS always did.

I'm sure that I didn't give RISCOS on a RPi much of a chance, but I felt
locked out, just as I felt locked out of the computer variants played with
in the 80's, and it seemed 'prettyfied'. Reliability and backward
compatibility is important to me. Speed is not ... Purely personal
observations ...

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and Linux on a PandaBoard ES, Raspberry Pi3B+ and Pi4B+

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In message <ssikj5$o7q$1@dont-email.me>
RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

On 22 Jan 2022 at 16:51:08 GMT, "David Higton" <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
wrote:

I still have a BB running RISC OS as my doorbell server.

Curious about the doorbell - isn't it annoying in the case of non-visitors (posties etc.)?

Its purpose is to make it more likely for me to hear the doorbell when
we are out of earshot of the real thing, e.g. when we're in the sun
lounge with the doors closed, or when we're in the garden. It's an
electronic bell with two receivers, the second of which is interfaced
to the BB, which then notifies me via Pushover on my mobile phone.
Most of the notifications arrive within 2 seconds, although there was
one yesterday that took 20 minutes - which is of course completely
useless for the purpose. Like I say, it's a minority. But then I
also get notified when I'm out; equally useless, but who cares?

I don't understand why you think it might be annoying. If someone
rings the doorbell and I'm at home, I want to know - that's the point
of a doorbell, after all. And if someone leaves a package at the
door and buggers off, I'd rather bring it in before it gets rained on.

David

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:45:11 GMT
David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

I don't understand why you think it might be annoying. If someone
rings the doorbell and I'm at home, I want to know - that's the point
of a doorbell, after all. And if someone leaves a package at the
door and buggers off, I'd rather bring it in before it gets rained on.

One of these fine days I probably should get a doorbell, or knocker
or something[2] - but there's something about the way the our six dogs go librarian poo when there's someone in the drive that's quite unmistakable
and impossible to miss or ignore.

[2] Actually there's a bell, but it's not hooked up in the fuse box cos I
used the circuit for the shed (not shedde) and there's no button to press -
cos the plasterer lost it.

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On 23 Jan 2022 at 22:45:11 GMT, "David Higton" <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:

In message <ssikj5$o7q$1@dont-email.me>
RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:

On 22 Jan 2022 at 16:51:08 GMT, "David Higton" <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
wrote:

I still have a BB running RISC OS as my doorbell server.

Curious about the doorbell - isn't it annoying in the case of non-visitors >> (posties etc.)?

Its purpose is to make it more likely for me to hear the doorbell when
we are out of earshot of the real thing, e.g. when we're in the sun
lounge with the doors closed, or when we're in the garden. It's an electronic bell with two receivers, the second of which is interfaced
to the BB, which then notifies me via Pushover on my mobile phone.
Most of the notifications arrive within 2 seconds, although there was
one yesterday that took 20 minutes - which is of course completely
useless for the purpose. Like I say, it's a minority. But then I
also get notified when I'm out; equally useless, but who cares?

I don't understand why you think it might be annoying. If someone
rings the doorbell and I'm at home, I want to know - that's the point
of a doorbell, after all. And if someone leaves a package at the
door and buggers off, I'd rather bring it in before it gets rained on.

Sorry, at crossed purposes - I was thinking about motion detection, but yours is, as you say, connected to a physical push bell.

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On 2022-01-19, Dale Barnes wrote:

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am looking to support them if possible.

I've been using Slackware ARM, installed via the SARPi project:

https://sarpi.penthux.net/

It works really well, especially for headless setups, and gives you
virtually all of the functionality one would expect from a full and
complete Slackware system.
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:16:34 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 22:45:11 GMT David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
wrote:

I don't understand why you think it might be annoying. If someone
rings the doorbell and I'm at home, I want to know - that's the point
of a doorbell, after all. And if someone leaves a package at the door
and buggers off, I'd rather bring it in before it gets rained on.

One of these fine days I probably should get a doorbell, or

knocker

or something[2] - but there's something about the way the our six dogs
go librarian poo when there's someone in the drive that's quite
unmistakable and impossible to miss or ignore.

When a friend had a similar system I referred to it as the "Dog Bell" :-)







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On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 12:59:38 +1200
nospam.Dale.Barnes@f201.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Dale Barnes) wrote:

freebsd13 is deployed on my raspberry-pi-400, though the video display
does not work well.

Good Day All,

What OS systems are currently being used on RBerry devices as I am
looking to support them if possible.

Any info would be great.

Thank you,

Dale

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Support them for what? If you don't mind saying.

I have the InterMail mailer and now coming is InterPoint which are both going to be Multi-plaform. Will take a peek at the os choices for these tiny systems to see if it would be possible and have fun.

I was going to try Andriod on the devices to see how well that worked

Thanks for the info and feedback


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On 24 Jan 2022, Dale Barnes said the following...

664

Support them for what? If you don't mind saying.

I have the InterMail mailer and now coming is InterPoint which are both going to be Multi-plaform. Will take a peek at the os choices for these tiny systems

to see if it would be possible and have fun.

I was going to try Andriod on the devices to see how well that worked

Thanks for the info and feedback

When will this be available?

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's BBS
-=JoesBBS.com=-

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