Raspbian Stretch released based on Debian Stretch

When it is about to complete two years after release of Raspbian Jessy, Raspbian team has announced release of Raspbian Stretch, latest stable release of Debian based GNU/Linux distribution targeting Raspberry Pi devices. The two year gap between consequent releases is inherited from the Debian itself. Debian publishes a major release in every two year.

Comparing to Debian Jessy, changes in Stretch are almost invisible. Still we can summarize it as package updates and under the hood improvements. Though, there has been some significant updates in Raspbian images. These improvements includes:

• Sonic Pi 3.0.1which comes with a lot of functionalities for I/O operations.
• Chromium web browser has been updated to version 60, which consumes less amount of memory and CPU. You may also experience slight performance improvement.
• bluez-alsa package is included to make bluetooth audio to work with ALSA itself.
• You can use other user names other than default one 'pi'. Earlier, a lot of applications used to assume pi as default user. It has been changed. You can also provide sudo access to users other than pi.
• Off line version of scratch 2 is included. It comes with extension for sense hat. If a Sense HAT is connected, the extension will control that in preference to the emulator.
• Includes patch to fix vulnerability in the firmware of the BCM43xx wireless chipset which is used on Pi 3 and Pi Zero W

For more detailed change logs and screenshots see original release announcement published in Rapbian website.

New Update is Available for Raspbian

The Raspbian team official announced availability of updated image for Raspbian operating system, a debian based distribution targeting Raspberry Pi devices. One of the important feature of this update is support for Pi Zero.

From official release announcement:

IBM’s Node-RED Internet Of Things application is now included – this allows you to rapidly create IoT applications by connecting blocks in a graphical editor. We’re going to run a full blog post on this in the near future, but for now have a look here for more details. To get started, run the Node-RED application from Programming in the main menu, and then use the web browser to access port 1880 at your Pi’s own address to see the editor.

For more information, see complete announcement in Raspbian blog.

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Raspbian Jessie Released

Raspbian developers announced release of Raspbian Jessy, latest stable release of Debian based Raspberry Pi operating system. This is first Raspbian release based on Debian 8.x Jessy. Recent versions of Raspbian were based on Debian 7.x Wheezy.

According to official release announcement:

Many of the changes between Wheezy and Jessie are invisible to the end-user. There are modifications to the underlying system to improve performance and flexibility, particularly as regards the control of system processes, and as with any update, there are numerous bug fixes and tweaks. And at the same time as the upgrade to Jessie, we’ve added a bunch of changes and improvements to the desktop user interface.

For more information and detailed feature list, see complete release announcement here. 

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Converting Respberry Pi into a Portable Streaming Camera

The Raspberry Pi has a got a wide popularity due to it's ability to turn into a wide range of devices. It's high flexibility and portability also contributes to it's value.

A tutorial written by Mr Anderson Silva of Red Hat, published in opensource.com explains how to convert a Raspberry Pi device to a portable streaming camera.

Last month I decided to kick off a new Raspberry Pi project, since it's been a bit too long since my last few (See: Christmas lights and Musicbox). For a few months now, I've been wanting to play around with a Raspberry Pi Touchscreen, and I've been meaning to buy the Pi Camera as well. I went ahead and ordered them both from Adafruit. (I went with the 3.5" PiTFT touchscreen.) Once they arrived, I started to do some reading online on how to get them installed. The PiTFT requires you to customize your Raspbian install a bit, but the directions were pretty straightforward and I only had a couple of issues. First, I didn't have the screen seated well enough on the GPIO pins and it didn't turn on. The other one was a bit more complicated.

Check here to read complete tutorial.