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Raspberry Pi OS
What Is Raspberry Pi OS?
Raspbian is a free Debian-based operating system optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. Raspbian provides more than a pure operating system, coming with over 35,000 pre-compiled software packages for easy installation on the Raspberry Pi.
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Reviews of Raspberry Pi OS
Debian based official OS for Raspberry Pi computers
Comments: Raspberry PI OS has made it possible to develop low-cost computers and IoT devices.
Pros:
With Raspberry Pi OS it is possible to develop extremely light and affordable computers and IoT devices. It is best suited for developers and hobbyists. It is a dedicated OS for ARM processors and supports hardware rendering. It is free and supported by the Raspberry Pi foundation with a wide range of official boards to meet any kind of commercial project needs.
Cons:
Still immature for enterprise-level implementation. Cannot be used for heavy computing. A hardware upgrade is not possible.
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Rapberry Pi an on a budget solution for scalable projects.
Comments: Very helpful and low budget to implement prototypes on IoT projects and low edge computing for IA.
Pros:
The way you have back up support from all the community over the world implementing projects similar to the one you might start.
Cons:
The user interface is still very command line based, given that is Linux based OS is understandable, nevertheless it needs to get better.
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Raspberry Pi OS: Controlling Raspberry Pi I/O using Python
Comments: Very good experience with the Pi as a controller for external machinery. I even used it in developing my microprocessor design courses for testing automation and interfacing applications.
Pros:
We tested Raspberry Pi OS in developing control software for Raspberry Pi 3B+ controllers. The configuration simply consists of connecting relay switches to the output ports of the Raspberry Pi to automate the on/off switching of electrical machinery. The programming language we used is Python which had all the libraries needed to control the I/O ports on the Raspberry Pi. Moreover we developed simple Web Server code on the Raspberry Pi to provide a Web user interface to the device management. Very easy to use and develop to produce real-world control applications. Would like to upgrade to Raspberry Pi 4 which promises better energy efficiency (this is a major problem I faced with task intensive processing on the Pi.
Cons:
Data as well as processing intensive operations produce a lot of heat on the Raspberry Pi. This is definitely not an issue with the OS but an architectural issue. It would be nice to upgrade and inspect with Raspberry Pi 4 as it promises better energy management. It would be great to test some machine learning training or image processing on the Pi and see how it goes in terms of energy consumption and heat dissipation.
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Rasp Pi OS the Go to for Tinkering/Testing easy application implementation in production.
Comments: I've used this OS for many applications and for general testing/fun from robotics tinkering to mini server farms.
Pros:
Linux based, customizable, easy to work with GPIO's on the board
Cons:
It's a solid OS, nothing negative to say.
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Raspberry Pi OS up there with the best now
Pros:
For integrated systems we often use Raspberry Pi's and the Raspberry Pi OS just makes everything easy, no messing with terminal or fiddly setups, it just works and it's reliable. Bullseye has just been released and is even better.
Cons:
Raspberry Pi OS can be fiddly to get up and running and certain things, even available in Debian, just aren't available.