Thanks to those who bothered to answer the question rather than trying to score points. I expected better here. Obviously I was mistaken about that too. This is precisely the sort of thing that makes it difficult for beginners to get some traction if they're attacked for a slip of the tongue. I post...

So i got the name convention wrong. Whoopsie do. I know it's based in Stretch, all the updates and apt output confirms that.

That doesn't even begin to answer the question.

I've had Pis for a quite a while and I'll be honest, all but two have been languishing in a draw for some time. However, a new project needed a quick desktop OS in a small, low-power box (think tablet-like) so I went through all usual suspects and finally got around to Raspbian out of sheer despair....

I'm running Cuberite (http://cuberite.org/) which I've compiled on a Pi (cough, cough) clone (comparable to a Pi 2). Processor usage at idle is 3% rising to 50% (of one core) with a single user logged in. The database, etc. is on an external hard drive which means I can move it from system to system...

Twitter is about my limit unless there is an announcement. I don't get anywhere near as much time as I would like on my PI.

Perhaps a silly question, but how do we know when there is a new version to kick the tyres on? I'm happy to try because it's really bumming my experience with software rendering under Raspbian Mate. I hope this is still sufficiently OnT but if not, can someone point me in the right direction?

On the plus side, I've got the driver (cough) working (cough) on my PI3 both in Mate and KDE on a Raspbain Lite base. Both cases the display comes in what I assume is true colour because KDE looks baaaaad when due to the effects and the background screen isn't dithered in either. Mate 1.8 is my syst...

One of thing outstanding things about the Pi is it's speed - or rather lack of it. Thing is that the processor on the 2 and 3 is actually pretty nippy and what holds the whole thing back is the bottleneck from the microSD which makes using an GUI like Mate (or Ubuntu Mate) absolutely excruciating. T...

I know there is an Ubuntu Mate flavour by Martin Wimpress (kudos for some great work there) but I've manage to roll my own system (not a distro!) using Raspian Jessie minimal and then adding the Mate system on top. I'm still a rank amateur at this and I had to resort to the various instructions on w...

... you check for compilation errors in your XBMC build before you get out of bed.

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Yes it will - but here's a longer explanation. (The quick answer is at the bottom of this post). There seems to be a fair bit of confusion between voltage and current - particularly to regulation of each; so I'll try to explain in simple terms. First off, you have two types of power supply - smart (...