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Raspberry Pi OS "Bullseye" is getting some changes to improve its robustness. Gone is the default user 'pi' with the default password of 'raspberry'. On first-boot, a setup wizard walks through setting a normal user with a regular password, though there are still options for headless installation. Among other improvements, it is now also possible to do the setup with a bluetooth mouse/keyboard exclusively. The old way required at least a wired mouse, if not also a wired keyboard, to connect first.
There are also mechanisms to preconfigure an image without using Imager. To set up a user on first boot and bypass the wizard completely, create a file called userconf or userconf.txt in the boot partition of the SD card; this is the part of the SD card which can be seen when it is mounted in a Windows or MacOS computer. This file should contain a single line of text, consisting of username:encrypted- password – so your desired username, followed immediately by a colon, followed immediately by an encrypted representation of the password you want to use.
Since it is a full general-purpose computer, other distros and even other operating systems are available for the Raspberry Pi. Slackware, LInux Mint, and Devuan are all among the distros which run well. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD also support at least some Raspberry Pi models. However, the official guides and tutorials all point to Raspberry Pi OS, which is a Debian derivative.
Previously:
(2022)
Long Interview with Eben Upton About Long Term Plans for RPi (journal entry)
(2022) Can't Get Hold of a Shiny New Raspberry Pi? Blame the Bots
(2022) Raspberry Pi 64-bit Armbian Gets New Release
(2021) Raspberry Pi Launches .com Website, Eyes Retail Expansion in Africa
(2021) The Ongoing Raspberry Pi Fiasco
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @09:16PM
But has it got MAGAots in its eye? Can't buy any Raspberries, anymore, so doesn't really matter.
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Sunday April 10 2022, @11:03PM (5 children)
Good luck with that with the piece of junk Pi 4 I have, with a wired keyboard connected it will not start up. I have been running Bullseye since the day Debian released it, saves a good 10C in temperature compared to their junk OS.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @01:15AM (1 child)
Or just enable ssh while you're at it. I haven't had any issues yet, even 1tb of zfs has been running fine. The only issue is kernel mods not wanting to install to the boot partition.
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Monday April 11 2022, @03:47AM
"Or just enable ssh while you're at it."
Oh yeah that is what I did both with their OS and Debian. Never even noticed the keyboard thing until one day I decided to check out the desktop so hooked up keyboard next time I rebooted it dies on the USB detection for that device. Plug it in afterward it works fine, the piece of junk. Oh well you get what you pay for at least I got it dirt cheap, before the parasite speculators got involved and drive the prices through the roof..
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Monday April 11 2022, @08:11AM (2 children)
What can possibly cause such a big difference in temperature? Have you inspected enabled services/run-time load? I do use the RaspPi Foundation images and would switch if they are really that inferior.
(Score: 4, Informative) by coolgopher on Monday April 11 2022, @08:31AM
They might be defaulting to the "performance" CPU scaling governor, as opposed to something more balanced (e.g. "ondemand")?
And of course, Raspbian does use systemd... ;)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RedGreen on Monday April 11 2022, @02:55PM
"What can possibly cause such a big difference in temperature?"
I would think the unused graphics being loaded, it just sitting at a login screen gives you the extra 10C. Who knows how much more when in use I never really checked that I only logged into it the one time. I just noticed the difference in the shell when checking the temperatures when using both OSs the Debian never having a desktop installed, the PiOS sitting at login screen with me logged into the shell via ssh. Here is what it sits at now after that stupid little fan in the CANAKIT case died with only the heat sinks on it.
root@bullseye-raspi:~# volts_clock_temp.sh
arm_freq=1500
core_freq=500
core_freq_min=200
gpu_freq=500
gpu_freq_min=250
over_voltage_avs=-20000
arm: frequency(48)=1300324224
core: frequency(1)=500000992
h264: frequency(28)=0
isp: frequency(45)=0
v3d: frequency(46)=250000496
core: volt=0.8600V
sdram_c: volt=1.1000V
sdram_i: volt=1.1000V
sdram_p: volt=1.1000V
temp=55.5'C
throttled=0x0
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 10 2022, @11:38PM
Are there any implications for the move to Wayland or is desktop performance still bad?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 11 2022, @08:36PM (1 child)
Dump the "I'm pretending I'm not root by sticking 'sudo' in front of commands".
Create a secure root passphrase: sudo passwd root
Edit /etc/sudoers to disallow 'pi' from effectively being 'root'
Now, administrative tasks and security related modifications can only be done by root.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by RedGreen on Monday April 11 2022, @10:06PM
"Dump the "I'm pretending I'm not root by sticking 'sudo' in front of commands".
Now, administrative tasks and security related modifications can only be done by root."
Indeed that is the first thing I do with them sudo using OSs, nobody is ever going to convince me that one password is more secure than having to crack two to take over the machine.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen