Raspberry Pi for PCs (Mac, Windows or LInux).

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  • May 14, 2018 at 4:57 pm #20690
    Ed PEd P
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      The ‘Live’ iso enables a Raspberry Pi to be tried or installed in a virtual machine. or burnt to a boot USB  It obviously has a few hardware limitations (e.g. gpio), but if you change the screen size (xrandr -s 1920×1449 for example) then it makes a better development environment for playing with Python, Minecraft etc. You may prefer lxrandr from the command line.

      It also provides an Android development environment but I have not tried that aspect.

      Others have reported issues with vmware tools but that ran without issue for me. Others have had problems with virtualbox, but that is untested by me.

      May 16, 2018 at 8:45 am #20747
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        From memory, it also has a number of extra tools that the standard Pi desktop doesn’t have, such as the network boot server so that Pi’s can boot directly from that and Home data is saved to the x86 system (aimed at classrooms).

        Mind, it also has items removed, like Mathmatica

        "Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

        May 17, 2018 at 6:05 am #20779
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          I forget where I saw it, but you can also buy a USB GPIO header.

          Arch Linux, on a Ryzen 7 1800X, 32 GB, 5 (yes -5) HDs inc 5 SSDs, 4 RPi 3Bs + 1 RPi 4B - one as an NFS server with two more drives, PiHole (shut yours), Plex server, cloud server, and other random Pi stuff. Nice CoolerMaster case, 2 x NV GTX 1070 8GB, and a whopping 32" AOC 1440P monitor.

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