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Pixel OS for Raspberry Pi with Chromium Browser

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the spot-on! dept.

frojack writes:

As I've mentioned in the past, I often use a Raspberry Pi Model 3 for casual web surfing and email.

Recently Raspberrypi dot org introduced a newer version of Raspbian they call Pixel; it provides the Chromium web browser and a full LibreOffice suite.

Wow, two pigs in one small basket was my original thought.

Boy was I wrong. Chromium (even running uBlock Origin) was by far the fastest and most stable of the available browsers I've used on the Pi.

Midori, and "Web" (both webkit browsers), are slow and crashy by comparison.

Not so with Chromium. Its Blink engine really is very good on this hardware.

And LibreOffice also runs very well.

In fact, this Raspian (Raspberry Debian) release is just all around useable.

If you've got an extra flat screen, keyboard and mouse in your junk closet (or a spare hdmi port on your current monitor), its well worth the 35 bucks for a Pi model B Version 3. Its an astounding value and fun as well.

I bought extra MicroSD cards for playing with the other Operating System choices available from a variety of different sources.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:21PM (#413690)

    Too bad it's still chromium and google...
    Has anyone actually vetted chromium and verified that it doesn't phone home?

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:26PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:26PM (#413693) Journal

    Isn't Pixel the name of Google's high end Chromebook and recent high end smartphone (which got a lot of press due to the perfect timing just as Galaxy Note 7 was recalled)?

    Smells like a trap.

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by dyingtolive on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:43PM

      by dyingtolive (952) on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:43PM (#413702)

      OMG! Google has 6 characters in it's name, and Pixel has 5...

      6+5 = 11, and two less than that is 9!

      9/11! Google was behind it all along! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLLLLLEEEEEE!

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Thursday October 13 2016, @12:54AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Thursday October 13 2016, @12:54AM (#413712) Journal

        HOLY SHIT!!!

        Newsletter? Subscribed!!!! :)

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      • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:55AM

        by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:55AM (#413731) Journal

        9/11 terrorist attacks.

        11 - 9 = 2

        Google has 6 letters in its name.

        6 / 2 = 3

        A triangle has 3 sides.

        Illuminati confirmed.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @12:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @12:40AM (#413711)

      I value my privacy. That's why I'm using 1PIXEL.GIF as my OS.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:38AM (#413719)

    Yes, I have vetted it. It phones home.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:42AM (#413724)

      My earlier comment on this: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=14685&cid=380018 [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @02:10AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @02:10AM (#413736)
        The log from the other comment:

        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://gggmdlbfmhhonpmgaakclligkignneeo/_generated_background_page.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh/_generated_background_page.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab?espv=2&ie=UTF-8
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://gggmdlbfmhhonpmgaakclligkignneeo/_generated_background_page.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh/_generated_background_page.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab?espv=2&ie=UTF-8
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://gggmdlbfmhhonpmgaakclligkignneeo/_generated_background_page.html overriding:
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh/_generated_background_page.html overriding:
        bool blink::DocumentLoader::maybeLoadEmpty() snl url:
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url:  overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://gggmdlbfmhhonpmgaakclligkignneeo/core.js
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh/utility.js
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh/cards.js
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab-serviceworker.js overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-extension://pafkbggdmjlpgkdkcbjmhmfcdpncadgh/background.js
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab-serviceworker.js
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab?espv=2&ie=UTF-8 overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://ssl.gstatic.com/chrome/components/doodle-notifier-02.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/k=xjs.ntp.en_US.AxPVhxPmxBI.O/m=jsa,ntp,d,csi/rt=j/d=1/t=zcms/rs=ACT90oGjzARWsxI_TYKIdHZWH7Tg3ia_Pg
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/xjs/_/js/k=xjs.ntp.en_US.AxPVhxPmxBI.O/m=spch/rt=j/d=0/t=zcms/rs=ACT90oGjzARWsxI_TYKIdHZWH7Tg3ia_Pg
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_light_color_272x92dp.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&adh=&xjs=init.295.3.ntp.294.jsa.1.bbd.0&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=prt.4257,xjsls.4381,ol.4690,xjses.5054,xjsee.5449,xjs.5449,aft.4186,wsrt.8145,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        bool blink::DocumentLoader::maybeLoadEmpty() snl url:
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url:  overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://most-visited/single.html?removeTooltip=Don%27t%20show%20on%20this%20page
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/async/newtab?async=xid:1,_fmt:json&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&espv=2&yv=2
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&adh=&xjs=init.295.3.ntp.294.jsa.1.bbd.0&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=prt.4257,xjsls.4381,ol.4690,xjses.5054,xjsee.5449,xjs.5449,aft.4186,wsrt.8145,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&adh=&xjs=init.295.3.ntp.294.jsa.1.bbd.0&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=prt.4257,xjsls.4381,ol.4690,xjses.5054,xjsee.5449,xjs.5449,aft.4186,wsrt.8145,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://most-visited/single.html?removeTooltip=Don%27t%20show%20on%20this%20page overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/async/newtab?async=xid:1,_fmt:json&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&espv=2&yv=2
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/async/newtab?async=xid:1,_fmt:json&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&espv=2&yv=2
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&adh=&xjs=init.295.3.ntp.294.jsa.1.bbd.0&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=prt.4257,xjsls.4381,ol.4690,xjses.5054,xjsee.5449,xjs.5449,aft.4186,wsrt.8145,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://most-visited/single.css
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://most-visited/single.js
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/async/newtab?async=xid:1,_fmt:json&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&espv=2&yv=2
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://ssl.gstatic.com/gb/images/v1_76783e20.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&action=update&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=xhr.4719,aft.1340,wsrt.15717,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        bool blink::DocumentLoader::maybeLoadEmpty() snl url:
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url:  overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/http://www.foo.com/
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/2/1
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/http://www.foo.com/
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/2/1
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/http://www.soylentnews.org/
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/2/2
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/http://www.soylentnews.org/
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/2/2
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=chromiumsync&sarp=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen-US%2Fchrome%2Fblank.html%3Fsource%3D1
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/2/3
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=chromiumsync&sarp=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen-US%2Fchrome%2Fblank.html%3Fsource%3D1
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/2/3
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/welcome.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/2/4
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/welcome.html
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/2/4
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://thumb/2/5
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/https://chrome.google.com/webstore?hl=en
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://favicon/size/16@1x/2/5
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.gstatic.com/og/_/js/k=og.og.en_US.xF9ChgqvufY.O/rt=j/m=ld,gl,is,id,nb,nw,sb,sd,p,vd,awd,st,lod,eld,ip,dp,cpd/exm=bt,base,bn,bu,cp,el,lo,sbi,ni,sf,up,dd,aw,iw,if,gi,vi,pi,eq,uc/d=1/ed=1/rs=AA2YrTvAy7Ca1xdfmTj9IdlqgOl0lq0xnA
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&action=update&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=xhr.4719,aft.1340,wsrt.15717,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&action=update&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=xhr.4719,aft.1340,wsrt.15717,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab-serviceworker.js overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab-serviceworker.js
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.google.com/gen_204?v=3&s=newtab&atyp=csi&ei=hAaIV-eAD4auePWHv4gH&action=update&p=s&npn=1&ima=1&rt=xhr.4719,aft.1340,wsrt.15717,cst.0,dnst.0,rqst.127,rspt.3,rqstt.5691,unt.3558,cstt.3558,dit.12527
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://apis.google.com/_/scs/abc-static/_/js/k=gapi.gapi.en.j-y7qGJKyg0.O/m=gapi_iframes,googleapis_client,plusone/rt=j/sv=1/d=1/ed=1/rs=AHpOoo-1bbattVOr7yBEXudZFPKlF2bRoQ/cb=gapi.loaded_0
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: chrome-search://local-ntp/images/close_3_mask.png
        bool blink::DocumentLoader::maybeLoadEmpty() snl url:
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url:  overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: http://www.soylentnews.org/
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: http://www.soylentnews.org/
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.soylentnews.org/
        void blink::DocumentLoader::ensureWriter(const WTF::AtomicString &, const blink::KURL &) url: https://www.soylentnews.org/ overriding:
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/base.css?rehash_16_02_02
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/comments.css?rehash_16_02_02
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/soylentnews.css?rehash_16_02_02
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/topics/topicnews.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/topics/topicsecurity.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/topics/topicdevrandom.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/topics/topichardware.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/topics/topicmeta.png
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/print.gif
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/atomicon.gif
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/rssicon.gif
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/print.css?rehash_16_02_02
        void blink::ResourceRequest::setURL(const blink::KURL &) url: https://soylentnews.org/images/logo_soylentnews.png

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @05:00PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @05:00PM (#413971)

        Very interesting! Since the first thing there is "https://www.google.com/_/chrome/newtab?espv=2&ie=UTF-8", I have to ask: Did you set a custom new-tab page with an extension like this one [google.com]? (Obviously, I'm not happy that you have to load an extension to change the new-tab page -- this should be a user-facing setting, same as the home page (if you have the home button enabled) and start-up page options.)

        If so, then it's loading the default new-tab page, then replacing it with your custom page, and that's a serious problem in its own right. And all the other requests to Google are probably unavoidable.
        If not, then it renders everything else suspect -- there's no way to know which other requests to Google are only happening because you're loading the Google's new-tab page in the first place, and which ones are really inescapable. I'd be very interested to see the results if you install some such extension, point it at a non-google url (I'd use a file: url, but up to you), and try again.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:12PM (#413871)

      Can someone technical explain if Chromium is truly suspect?