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Raspbian [1] is the name of the original community project to port Debian to armhf (armv6 hard float) which ran on the Raspberry Pi 1.

Raspberry Pi put our their own images based on this, and called it Raspbian until about 2020 [2] when they started calling it "Raspberry Pi OS" after they started producing aarch64 images.

[1] https://www.raspbian.org/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-...

Further reading:

[4] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-...

[5] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/602658/253655

Yes, it was Magento. And you're right about the rest too :)

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20210803081136/https://blog.piwh...

Agreed!

This reminds me of a part I didn't mention in the article - they initially actually set up a second company called "Shady Apps" with a separate Developer account from which they upload the "people will buy anything for 99p" apps, on the basis that they would keep the "App Start" one clean for just the better quality ones.

One day Alex showed me a bunch of such apps they'd made - the "orgasm button" was one I can recall...

UK pants or US pants?

Phew!

Absolutely! It's what I needed at the time. An experience to learn from, plus getting paid to build something cool and prove myself a little.

In many ways it was a really good first job for me - the people and dodgy business ongoings aside - what I needed at the time was to build stuff in my own way on my own terms, but with purpose. The next job was a bit of a shock, but it was another new experience.

If it's your first experience in work, you're naiave to what's not acceptable...

If I were to start a new job now, I'd know the warning signs :)

I wonder if a) PyPI will get a DMCA notice and b) PyPI honours such notices.

Arduino is a for-profit company with open source hardware; Raspberry Pi is a charity with closed-source hardware.

Nothing wrong with either approach. But your comment makes out they're a for-profit company with closed-source hardware acting like the good guys.

Not sure it's fair to label them as just another company when they're not-for-profit and pump all their money into a) product development and b) education programmes.

To be honest, if the Pi was open source hardware, everyone would buy the clones (like they do with the Arduino ones) and the charity side would have much less funding.

I finally gave in and just installed the damn Reddit app. And now it sends me constant push notifications. I thought I found an obscure way to turn them off but now they're back sp I think I'll just do without Reddit.

I host a static website on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it's been running very well for about 3 years. It's static HTML and it also serves files. It's hosted by a provider with a "Pi Cloud". https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi

The website is https://www.piwheels.org - it's a Python package repository for Raspberry Pi users

It's served over 20M downloads, which is 70TB. Currently serving 1.2M downloads a month (4.4TB).

A cheap VPS would be easier, better and about the same price. But piwheels is a bit of a dogfooding project. But it works!