It has been pretty quiet on the Raspberry Pi operating system since the rash of updates around Christmas/New Year.
Not that there hasn’t been plenty of other interesting things going on, of course, but the basic operating systems themselves had been stable. Not so any more, suddenly there is a rash of new releases, so it’s time to take a fresh look at my favourite little computer!
First, there is a new NOOBS release (New Out Of Box Software). This is the wonderful and amazing automatic self-installing bundle of operating systems that is provided by the Raspberry Pi developers. My first post about the Raspberry Pi and Raspbian discussed NOBS in some detail, and described installing and using it. At that time the NOOBS release was 1.3.4.
I never saw 1.3.5 appear for download, but 1.3.6 showed up a week or two ago, and then before I actually got around to downloading it they had already moved on to 1.3.7, which is the current version. I will run through each of the operating systems included in NOOBS …