Raspberry Pi 5 Coming Soon!

[day_trippr]

Bigly performance gains now need serious power and cooling solutions to actually be achieved!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/
Cheers!

 

[DuncB]

And I waited ages to get my Pi 4 8Gb.

It looks a hot one though and a new OS as well so bound to be some early pain.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

The RPi4s were so hard to find for so long and now the market is flooded with them.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

To me, casually watching the various Pi related forums, it appears that many hobbyists that might have used the Pi 4 for an interesting project found other interesting things to do using the Pi Zero and/or RP2040.

For example: "Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Ubuntu Server 21.10", "Kali on Raspberry Pi Zero".

Linux on a RP2040 appears to be a work-in-progress. Is RP2040 too small? Maybe wait for the next generation of RP2040?

 

[day_trippr]

Might be a matter of memory. The RP2040 itself has 256KB of SRAM and the Pico and Pico W add just 2MB of on-board memory. That's pretty tight to host an actual operating system...

Cheers!

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

OK. I spent an additional 5 min with "the duck"; a couple of minutes on the meme, and 5 min repackaging the search result.

• RISC-V emulator for RP2040, capable of running Linux (link)
• FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful (link)
  • "Fuzix is an old-school V7 Unix clone"
  • ESP 8266 port (link)
  • Pi Pico port (link)

 

[day_trippr]

I spent 15 seconds on the first link to find they added 16MB of external memory to make it work...

Cheers!

 

[Jeroen79]

The Pi5 would be overkill to run our brew kettles, it would just waste power, a esp32 would also do the job.