Micro-SD -card and RISC OS on Raspberry Pi

In case you have a leftover Micro-SD -card, don't throw it away! With an adapter it's possible to run for example RISC OS on Raspberry Pi. And although Micro-SD -cards are not that fast, it's not a problem what comes to RISC OS.

My card is a 2 GB and used to serve as a regular mobile phone storage. When writing for example music on that card it took a lot of time. This goes to show Micro-SD cards are, eh, slow.

After downloading RISC OS I wrote the image and was ready to boot Raspberry Pi - with no success. I only got 640*480 RISC OS boot screen saying there's nothing (or enough) on the card. Now what? I downloaded an update which I renamed as RISCOS.IMG. After that I replaced the old file with the newer one on the card. That helped! I got an extra harddisk for Raspberry Pi! RISC OS is so lightning fast it doesn't matter if Micro-SD -card is a bit slow.

Micro-SD -card bottom right and the adapter above the card.

Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi is out!

Plan 9 is a UNIX-like operating system from Bell Labs. It's hardware requirements are low. How does this sound; 32 MB RAM and 486-processor? From now on Raspberry Pi is also supported. You can download image and write it to an SD-card, read some manuals and start using Plan!

It seems Raspberry Pi is becoming more and more versatile base and is offering whole bunch of different operating systems for you and me. What a bless! Intel-based computers are not that attractive because "Raspi" is so much cheaper and still has a lot of potential.

I've been studying RISC OS and, in fact, just got started with it. Now another OS is knocking on door. Plan 9 might look and feel very different from any other OS. But that's just great fun and adventurous! I feel I'm really lucky that I found Raspberry Pi and all it has to offer. Plan 9 is one very important step forward for Raspberry Pi.

Check out these links:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/

http://www.quanstro.net/newbie-guide.pdf

Edit: Here's what I got! Plan 9 boots quickly. Not much I can do with it at the moment. I have to read through manuals...

RISC OS saves my time!

Ever thought how much time you spend watching useless YouTube-vdeos or updating Facebook-status? Want to get rid of all that? Get yourself Raspberry Pi and install RISC OS on it! The trick is that Netsurf-browser which follows with RISC OS you can't see any videos or write status updates.

In my point of view very cheap computer (ie Raspberry Pi) with some very quick and minimum size software (RISC OS) life can become much easier yet more efficient. When giving up web 2.0 -apps I can concentrate on the most essential things. I have more space for my own thoughts. No video nor update cab interrupt when I'm working. Raspberry Pi (around 50 €) and RISC OS (free of charge) are worth every penny!