Episode 3:20: A Timepiece of Pi

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Coming up in this episode

1. The History of Raspbian Raspberry Pi OS
2. What we've been doing with Pi's
3. And we run something over the break

Watch the video for this episode on Youtube
https://youtu.be/nLPuojqJbK4

0:00 Cold Open
1:36 SBC, One, Two, Three
17:24 Raspberry Pi History: The Early Days
19:55 2006 - 2012
22:22 2012 - 2014
26:26 2014 - 2017
33:28 2017 - 2020
37:05 2020 - 2023
43:12 Hot Pis and Hot Takes
1:07:41 Next Season: A Twofer
1:16:36 Stinger

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• NanoPi R4S
• NanoPi R2S
• IPFire
• OPNsense
• OpenWrt

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Raspberry Pi OS the History

• BBC Micro
• ZX Spectrum
• The very first Raspberry Pi prototypes
• Early alpha boards
• Paul Beech's logo
• Early hacking resulted in a functional Debian Squeeze installation
• The Raspberry Pi is official
• Arch Linux ARM supporting the Raspberry Pi is out in the wild
• Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix
• The first Raspbian SD Image was made available for testing
• Raspberry Pi's began hitting doorsteps
• Quake III runs on Raspberry Pi
• Debian Wheezy beta build hits the public net
• Raspbian was officially announced
• Turbo Mode is added
• The model B got upgraded
• The Model A is finally available
• Minecraft: Pi Edition is released
• The cameras and updates in Raspbian are released
• Wayland preview is announced
• NOOBS
• Pi NoIR camera is now available
• No Foolin'. A website revamp
• Raspberry Pi compute module is announced
• Compute module development kits were available in June.
• Raspberry Pi B+ is launched
• Hardware Attached on Top
• Model A+ is announced
• The Raspberry Pi 2 launched
• The Raspberry Pi becomes the best selling British computer
• Raspbian rebases on Jessie
• Raspberry Pi Zero lands
• Raspberry Pi 3 releases
• About 5% of website traffic was served up by a Pi 3 on launch day.
• A camera connector for the Pi zero
• Raspbian is now a fully supported platform for Docker!
• SUSE released a 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi.
• PIXEL is now available for any machine that can run Debian Jessie!
• Compute Module 3 is released
• Pi Zero W is added to the lineup
• Raspbian rebases on Stretch
• The release for PCs and Macs rebases too
• The setup wizard runs automatically on first start.
• Pi 3 Model A+ hits shelves
• Raspberry Pi 4 goes on sale
• With the Pi 4 an overhauled OS gets shipped
• Feb 2020 a new Raspbian release
• 12.3 MP high quality camera hits the streets
• 8GB version of the Raspberry Pi 4 is on sale
• Raspbian ==> Raspberry Pi OS
• Compute Module 4 lands
• Raspberry Pi 400. A Pi 4 built into a keyboard
• Dec 2020 Raspberry Pi OS release
• Raspberry Pi Pico
• Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is now on sale
• The November 2021 release
• Raspberry Pi OS in 64-bit finally hits mirrors
• April 2021 release of RasPiOS
• Raspberry Pi Pico W at 6 dollars debuts
• September 2022 update
• Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 is released

Raspberry Pi OS links

• Main software web site
• The Forum
• Documentation
• Daily News
• Foundation

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Next Time - Next Season

We will discuss a couple of topics and some feedback. Our next distros are Debian and Gentoo. We will cover the history of Debian in Season 4 Episode 2 and we will use Gentoo for the entire season, checking on it periodically throughout.

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