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By peter, 1 June, 2025

Peninsula Pi Party

Celebrate July at the Peninsula Pi party on the Central Coast, just north of Sydney Australia. The next party is July 26.

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By peter, 19 May, 2025

Raspberry Pi OS disk space usage 2025

The Raspberry Pi computer is now second only to Android based smartphones. Most Raspberry Pi devices run the Raspberry Pi OS on microSD cards. How much space do you need for the operating system and other parts of your project?

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By peter, 10 January, 2025

Gnome Disk Utility in Raspberry Pi OS

There are times when you want a simple disk management application with a clean graphical Interface, like Disks in Linux Mint. The package providing that program is gnome-disk-utitlty. Here are the details for use in the Raspberry Pi OS and similar operating systems.

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By peter, 9 January, 2025

Raspberry Pi OS Lite - Install and configure with LXDE

We want to use Raspberry Pi OS Lite download with the LXDE graphical user interface on a Raspberry Pi Zero or Zero 2. We like the reduced memory usage compared to a full install of Raspberry Pi OS.

(This article was originally published in 2016 as Raspbian Lite - Install and configure with LXDE. The original described Raspbian Lite and now describes the Raspberry Pi OS Lite.)

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By peter, 1 January, 2025

Raspberry Pi 585

January 1, 2025

The Raspberry Pi 500 is an excellent idea for a combined Pi 5 and keyboard. There are limitations. I offer here the prototype of an alternative.

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