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Top 10 distros for raspberry pi development: Part 1

As you must have heard about the hype raspberry pi produced, raspberry pi took the open source world by storm. This affected linux communities too. Then came handful of distros especially developed for raspberry pi. I have compiled a list of 10 best linux distros which can be used for raspberry pi development. The first five distros are mentioned below:- Pidora :- Pidora is a Fedora remix, as they claim, designed especially for Raspberry Pi development. Pidora contains packages from Fedora ARM compiled especially for ARMv6 architecture. Packages have been specially written or modified for our favorite Raspberry Pi.     The latest version Pidora 2014 contains packages from Fedora 20. However, few things to note are Pidora is little bit slower than its rivals, especially Raspbian. There are a few factors that slows down the performance of the distro for raspberry pi. RISC OS  :- RISC OS was developed in Cambridge, England by Acorn. RISC OS w...

Raspberry pi: Whats and Whys.

    As you must have heard about the hype going around this new board called Raspberry pi. So in this article we will know what is raspberry pi and not just definition but also the fun you can have with it.  So, what is Raspberry pi??    The Raspberry Pi is a series of small sized (credit card) computer. It is a small computer mounted on a single board. It was developed in England, United Kingdom by Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and developing countries.  The original Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi 2 are manufactured in several board configurations through licensed manufacturing agreements with Newark Element14,RS Components and Egoman(Wikipedia). Products and Configurations :    As of now, there are 5 models of Raspberry Pi :RASPBERRY PI 3 MODEL B, RASPBERRY PI 2 MODEL B, RASPBERRY PI 1 MODEL B+, RASPBERRY PI ZERO, RASPBERRY PI 1 M...