Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland Transition Completed With Switch To Labwc

With the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) the end of the X Window System has become reality, completing a years-long transition period. Although this change between display ser…

Your Surface RT Can Become Useful Again, With Raspberry Pi OS

Over the years there have been so many times when Microsoft came up with a product that so nearly got it right, but which tanked in the market because the folks at Redmond had more of an eye to wha…

Raspberry Pi OS In-Place Upgrades, Not For The Faint Hearted

The Raspberry Pi series of boards are noted for their good software support, with a continuous flow of operating system upgrades such that an original Pi from 2012 will still boot the latest Pi OS.…

Debian Bookworm Comes To The Raspberry Pi, And Wayland Is Now Default

It must have been a busy week for the PR department at Raspberry Pi, with the launch of their latest single-board computer, the Pi 5. Alongside the new board comes something else, an updated Raspbe…

Raspberry Pi OS: Compile error: libSM.so and libICE.so not found · Issue #949 · strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

Describe the bug On a Raspberry Pi 4 with a fresh install or Raspberry Pi OS, and following the directions for Compiling on Debian, the make fails to find the libraries. To Reproduce $ make -j$(npr...

A 64-Bit Raspberry Pi OS At Last

Long-term Raspberry Pi watchers will have seen a lot of OS upgrades in their time, from the first Debian Squeeze previews through the Raspbian years to the current Raspberry Pi OS. Their latest OS …

Raspberry Pi OS added a Microsoft repository without informing users

In a recent update, Raspberry Pi OS installed a Microsoft repository on all machines running this Raspberry Pi operating system without th...