Adafruit's Custom Raspberry Pi Distro Gets an Upgrade

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By Matt Richardson
Posted 2012/08/31 @ 2:30 pm
Category Raspberry Pi

There are some great features packed into Adafruit’s latest update to Occidentalis, their custom Raspberry Pi distro:

Truncated image – only 2.6G now to fit on any 4G card

raspi-config notice retained on boot

Removed persistant wlan0 entry

Password-change reminder on login

Added RTC and lm-sensors kernel module

Included kernel modules for: DS1307, AD626 I2C digipots, HMC6352, BMP085, ADS1015

New! Adafruit’s PWM/Servo kernel module for easy PWM/Servo control on GPIO#18

I’ve been spending a lot more time experimenting with my Raspberry Pi lately, so I’m eager to try this update out.

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7 Responses to Adafruit’s Custom Raspberry Pi Distro Gets an Upgrade

matt on August 31st, 2012 at 6:43 pm said:

raspberry pi is super cool! in other news, what the heck did you make folks do to your blog? it is 1. super corporate looking with extra large adds and 2. impossible to read with all the articles collapsed. what gives ? this has been a great place to celebrate building stuff for the fun of it for– oh gosh– like 6 or 7 years now. has the time come to say goodbye ?

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- gabe on September 1st, 2012 at 8:15 am said:
  
  I couldn’t agree more. I visit Make a lot less than I used to. I hope their advertisers take note. I have been using Readibilty for some time on lots of sites and now I have to use it for Make. The bummer about that is that the comments section is filtered out in Readibility – which is one of the best parts of the Make Blog. Oh, well.
  
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- yachris on September 1st, 2012 at 12:19 pm said:
  
  Not sure it’s time to leave, but WOW, the new front-page format is ugly. PLEASE bring back the big pictures and more summary! I don’t like to read my Make through a key-hole.
  
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- mark on September 2nd, 2012 at 3:05 am said:
  
  I don’t know what parallel universe you guys inhabit, but in this one running a website such as this costs money. Advertisements, as long as they are suitable for the site, are a good way to generate income. Which would you prefer? Advertisements, or having to pay a subscription to access the site?
  
  I actually like the new layout. I’m in the UK, so having most of a page taken up by events that I couldn’t get to (Maker Faire, etc) got a little irritating. One thing I would change though is the descriptions for each project/event/etc. At the moment it just looks like the site is taking the first few sentences from each article, rather than having a dedicated concise description.
  
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moolder on September 3rd, 2012 at 1:01 pm said:

Hi Matt!

I use the Occidentalis 0.1 distro on my Pi, and I think it is great!

Yesterday though, I tried to install the arduino package but did not succeed: the dependencies “ca-certificates-java”, “binutils-avr” and “ttf-dejavu-extra” could not be downloaded. Do you know about this? Googling I did not immediately find an answer… Is there a way out, without reinstalling the whole distribution, or another distribution?

Greetings,
moolder

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- moolder on September 3rd, 2012 at 1:28 pm said:
  
  UPDATE: Got it working:
  
  apt-get update
  apt-get install arduino
  
  this worked just fine. I had used aptitude before, good old apt-get did the trick tho
  
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Bosstiger on September 7th, 2012 at 12:45 am said:

Reblogged this on Gigable – Tech Blog.

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