If software uses this name as a way to see whether it's running on a Raspberry Pi or not, that can break things. One interesting thing I noticed is that with Raspbian, if you check the OS release file that's in /etc/os-release, the name is set to "Raspbian", but with Raspberry Pi OS, the name is "Debian". Some guides and software that have special Pi configurations are currently broken on the 64-bit OS. I've been testing the beta 64-bit OS today, and here's what I learned: 64-bit Beta of the Raspberry Pi OS - Test Results This is really good news for the performance of my Turing Pi cluster! Also, Simon Long, a Raspberry Pi employee, said there would be more details about the transition from Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS in a blog post coming out tomorrow. He said that the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 will be released this year. In the comments on the blog post announcing these new products, Ebon Upton also dropped some new information. This new 64-bit Pi OS will allow me to use more Docker images and software, and that's a good thing! But more and more 'arm64' images are becoming available, and these work on all 64-bit ARM processors, like the ones used in AWS ARM instances or if you run Ubuntu 64-bit on your Raspberry Pi. What's so great about 64-bits? Well, there are lots of reasons it's better, some which are more technical and I won't talk about in this video, but one very practical thing is there's more software, especially for things like Docker images, that's built with ARM 64-bit compatibility.Īs an example, many of the container images that I'm going use in my next Pi Cluster video are available for X86-64, which is basically modern Intel or AMD processors, but they won't run on any Raspberry Pi. You can download it from this post in the Raspberry Pi forums. So the Raspberry Pi Foundation also announced that Raspbian OS is now going to be called Raspberry Pi OS, and there's a new 64-bit beta version available today. ![]() More RAM is always better, because you can fit more applications on the same Pi, especially if you're using them in a Kubernetes cluster, like I am in my Turing Pi Cluster series!īut one problem with more RAM on a Raspberry Pi is that the current version of Raspbian, which is a 32-bit operating system, can only use a small amount of the memory for any given process, so one application couldn't use all 8 GB of RAM. They've been selling a 1, 2, and 4 GB version for the past year, and I've been using all three models in my projects. This morning the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a new 8 GB version of the Raspberry Pi 4.
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