I have been absent for a while due to a number of reasons, one of them being another blog (Re-Entering The Hive) but recently i have been working on a new image for my Pi, based on ALARM with the Openbox WM and Kodi installed. You can grab it here (ETA=+/-15 mins): https://sourceforge.net/projects/micslinuxexp/files/?source=navbar Once downloaded … More Pibox – OPEN-PI – ALARM + OPENBOX + KODI
Just over a month ago i was contacted using the form available on my blog (Contact) by someone called Johnn van Bergem requesting some help with one of my images i had provided on my blog. We messaged each other for a while trying to fix the problem and managed to get some kind of … More Generosity of others !
Conky is a system monitor software for the X Window System. Conky is able to monitor many system variables including CPU, memory, swap, disk space, temperature, top, upload, download, system messages, and much more. It is extremely configurable, however, the configuration can be a little hard to understand. This post will explain how to run … More How to run multiple conky’s
Check out the blog post below for the announcement of the long awaited raspberry pi web browser ! Web browser released! | Raspberry Pi.
This post will explain how to create your own Raspbian based operating system for the Raspberry Pi. You will need a Pi, a 4 GB SD card (you can try smaller if you keep programs installed to a minimum), a host pc for initial installation and the raspbian-ua-netinst image available on github here. Download the … More Raspberry Pi – How to create your own Pi OS
Mashup is a third-party XBMC add-on, it is amazingly popular and until recently required a lot of google searching/attempts to get it installed (at least for me). Mashup should be installable on anything you have XBMC on so not just your Pi but any Linux/Mac/Windows OS that has XBMC installed on it and the process … More Raspberry Pi – How To Install Mashup Add-On – Raspbmc
This guide will explain how to install SliTaz on your Raspberry Pi. SliTaz is a very minimal operating system designed to run on low-spec hardware, to find out more check out the SliTaz homepage. You can download SliTaz for the Raspberry Pi from here, it is available in 2 versions, base and desktop, we will choose … More Raspberry Pi – How to install SliTaz
This guide will explain how to install pipaOS for your Raspberry Pi. You can check out the pipaOS homepage for more info but one of the cool features is it fits onto a 512 MB or 1 GB card ! You can get the 512 MB version from here and the 1 GB version from … More Raspberry Pi – How to install pipaOS
This guide will explain how to install the new Maynard Desktop Environment which is being developed for the Raspberry Pi. You will need a basic Raspbian install which boots to the command line to begin with. Update and upgrade your install then reboot : $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo reboot -h … More Raspberry Pi – How To Install Maynard Desktop
This guide will explain how to install PiPlug on your Raspberry Pi, this is the descripion of PiPlug from their github page : “PiPlug provides an extensible front-end for the Raspberry Pi allowing small Java plug-ins written using Eclipse SWT (very small overhead — no full Eclipse footprint). The PiPlug runtime dynamically finds your preferred … More Raspberry Pi – How to install PiPlug
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