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- Fri Sep 29, 2017 4:57 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: High speed of Raspberry Pi Desktop (was Pixel) !?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5408
Re: High speed of Raspberry Pi Desktop (was Pixel) !?
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...
- Fri Sep 29, 2017 2:52 am
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: High speed of Raspberry Pi Desktop (was Pixel) !?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5408
Re: High speed of Raspbian Pixel !?
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.
That doesn't even begin to answer the question.
- Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:51 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: High speed of Raspberry Pi Desktop (was Pixel) !?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5408
High speed of Raspberry Pi Desktop (was Pixel) !?
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....
- Sun May 29, 2016 11:06 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Is it faster to use the raspberry pi to host a minecraft Ser
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2172
Re: Is it faster to use the raspberry pi to host a minecraft
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...
- Thu May 05, 2016 11:23 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: New Open GL Driver, Bug report thread
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57955
Re: New Open GL Driver, Bug report thread
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. 

- Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:43 pm
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: New Open GL Driver, Bug report thread
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57955
Re: New Open GL Driver, Bug report thread
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?
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 1:47 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: New Open GL Driver, Bug report thread
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57955
Re: New Open GL Driver, Bug report thread
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...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:23 pm
- Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
- Topic: Raspbian Mate - Complete Setup
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4923
Raspbian Mate - Complete Setup
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...
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:03 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Raspian Mate Anyone?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 585
Raspian Mate Anyone?
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...
- Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:16 pm
- Forum: Off topic discussion
- Topic: Find this sentence: You know you're addicted to R-Pi when...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2924
Find this sentence: You know you're addicted to R-Pi when...
... you check for compilation errors in your XBMC build before you get out of bed.
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- Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:03 pm
- Forum: Advanced users
- Topic: Will 6V damage my Pi?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9198
Re: Will 6V damage my Pi?
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 (...