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

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 Thursday October 13 2016, @01:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 13 2016, @01:39AM (#413720)

    I have Pixel running on RPi1 and RPi2 for 2 weeks. Installed as APT-GET update. Both are good the '1 is slower but web is OK, mostly.. The '2 is very good but cannot run video well in full screen (1920 x 1200). Oh, it is the machine that I am writing this on.

    Looking at RPi3 since the cpu is appears to be 4x better than RPi2 which is 4x better than RPi1. Most likely a stocking stuffer. :-P

    Just gave 3 RPi0 to friend with all the cables and power supplies, so he and his nephews can have fun. Looking for a good 3D printed Lego case.