The word "Raspberry" means: "FRANBOISE" in English, and Pi is a play on words, between Pie, meaning PIE in English, and the and the number Pi in mathematics.The raspberry: it is a complete motherboard. With 1.4 GHz of power, two 4K HDMI connections (2 screens). The card runs on LINUX. Several OS are available. The most used are: Ubuntu or Raspbian Buster.
Raspbian is a free operating system based on the GNU/Linux Debian distribution, optimized for the Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry can also be used for everyday internet use, but they are sometimes very slow. A problem, which is almost corrected with model 4 and 5..
- Here are some steps to know for some beginners and experienced users.. click here
- Here is the official Raspberry website with details of the different cards (purchase possible) : click here
- A site which describes the Raspberry well, in French, and also, the different SD cards which are essential to run these great machines! click here
- can be used as an Pub blocker (a proxi), a general DNS filter, with PiHole system.
- They are used by developers to test their programs on less powerful machines. (Python)
- on the other hand LINUX kernel is renowned for being reliable. But be careful, Linux kernel only! Otherwise, it's up to you to play with Linux and its many distributions.
- They are also used to control other electronic interfaces or additional modules, from its GPIO ports.
- They can be transformed into a NAS (**personal cloud principle**): Open Media Vault or with Next Cloud.