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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: 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.