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"8GB ought to be enough for anybody", I guess?

Also, he said "Raspbian", rather than the "Raspberry Linux" in the title...which I don't think is a thing.

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Raspbian and Raspberry Linux both refer to Raspberry Pi OS, which was renamed from Raspbian. [1]

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/

I don't see the phrase "Raspberry Linux" in the linked page.

Google results only seems to show those words as a deliberate name for a few niche things like "RT Raspberry Linux". Meaning, I still don't think "Raspberry Linux" is a thing. HN should probably change the post title here.

Yeah it’s not called Raspberry Linux. This is a mistake but I think most people know he meant Raspbian/RPi OS

He said Raspbian. It's just the post title here that's off.

Edit: Yes, it's something of a nit, but it helps for searching, etc, later. Or if in the future, a different product does have that name. "Raspberry Pi OS" is an option if Raspbian seems obscure.

The post title is fine. I wouldn't have clicked this if it said something obscure like "Raspbian".

Raspbian [1] is the name of the original community project to port Debian to armhf (armv6 hard float) which ran on the Raspberry Pi 1.

Raspberry Pi put our their own images based on this, and called it Raspbian until about 2020 [2] when they started calling it "Raspberry Pi OS" after they started producing aarch64 images.

[1] https://www.raspbian.org/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-...

Further reading:

[4] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-...

[5] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/602658/253655

  rpi-imager - Raspberry Pi imaging utility

That tool gets you the option to install the image of your choosing.

8GB can be exhuasted, use a System Load Viewer dock widget and btop to spot/stop/start the process over-consuming your memory. Typically, the web browser hogs up to 1GB then I quit it. The next upgrade is to 16GB or 32GB from 8GB for me. I went from the Mac Mini at 8GB to Rpi 4GB then 8GB.

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