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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.
[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-...
One day Alex showed me a bunch of such apps they'd made - the "orgasm button" was one I can recall...
If I were to start a new job now, I'd know the warning signs :)
Nothing wrong with either approach. But your comment makes out they're a for-profit company with closed-source hardware acting like the good guys.
Not sure it's fair to label them as just another company when they're not-for-profit and pump all their money into a) product development and b) education programmes.
To be honest, if the Pi was open source hardware, everyone would buy the clones (like they do with the Arduino ones) and the charity side would have much less funding.
The website is https://www.piwheels.org - it's a Python package repository for Raspberry Pi users
It's served over 20M downloads, which is 70TB. Currently serving 1.2M downloads a month (4.4TB).
A cheap VPS would be easier, better and about the same price. But piwheels is a bit of a dogfooding project. But it works!
Raspberry Pi 3B: 94Mb/s Raspberry Pi 3B+: 285Mb/s Raspberry Pi 4B: 930Mb/s
Raspberry Pi 3B: 94Mb/s Raspberry Pi 3B+: 285Mb/s Raspberry Pi 4B: 930Mb/s
> Fortunately, 2711B0 has turned out to be production-ready, which has taken roughly 9–12 months out of the schedule.
Pre-compiled Python wheels are available for Python 3 on Raspberry Pi at piwheels.org (default for pip in Raspbian)
From the engineer who worked on it:
> I reimplemented the original PWM-based 11-bit audio @48kHz as 7-bit 2nd-order Sigma-Delta modulated at 781.25kHz. The effective noise floor with this scheme approximates that of CD-quality audio DACs.
from the forums https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1364...
- Are they interested in coding? Do they have independent learning material on computing?
- Do they have irregular sleeping patterns?
- Do they get an income from their online activities, do you know why and how?
- Are they resistant when asked what they do online?
- Do they use the full data allowance on the home broadband?
- Have they become more socially isolated?
Also Python isn't the only language we encourage. We ship Raspbian with Ruby, Java, Mathematica and more and have resources in many, including PHP.
1. Why PHP?
We all know PHP sucks (we advocate Python in education), but WordPress is ideal for authors and contributors and that's what we had to begin with.
2. Why WordPress?
When I joined the Foundation in 2013 they had a WordPress site Eben set up in 2011 and I wanted to keep the great user experience WordPress provides to authors and contributors so I built a bespoke theme expanding the content beyond the simple blog, keeping all former URLs working despite changes to the URL structure. Some of the newer content, like documentation and learning resources, is outside of WordPress and is pulled in from github and rendered into templates.
3. But why not build your own bespoke framework?
Firstly, if I did that, you'd tell me perfectly good web frameworks already exist. Secondly, WordPress is very mature and it's easy to add functionality quickly. I'm not talking about BS plugins - I hardly use any. I mean it's easy to add stuff into the templates, stuff you're likely to want to do. Finally, I'd rather spend my time and the Foundation's money doing educational projects.
4. WordPress caching plugins exist. Why don't you just use them?
We use WP Super Cache. It does most of what we want, but has some pretty fatal flaws: it doesn't go to cache for "logged in users" (including anyone who's ever made a comment), it recreates the cache after every comment, it does some work to figure out of it can give the user a cached page or not (this slows it down a lot), it doesn't cache the 404 page (more important than you'd think) and it doesn't cache requests with any GET methods params. Mythic created their own static page generating script for the pages with the most hits which updates every minute, and that's what kept us alive this time.
5. Why not use NGINX?
See a full article on this here: http://blog.mythic-beasts.com/2014/11/14/hiphop-and-wordpres...
6. What about hiphop vm?
We tried it. Fast but unreliable. We saw a huge rise in performance but most of that came from the upgrade from Wheezy's PHP 5.3. Compared to Jessie's PHP 5.6 was less impressive.
- Ben from Raspberry Pi