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Not anymore, no. We use the "Raspbian with desktop" image as a basis and delete most of the games to make the image fit on the 4 GByte eMMC variants of our prod
by l1k 7y ago
Not anymore, no. We use the "Raspbian with desktop" image as a basis and delete most of the games to make the image fit on the 4 GByte eMMC variants of our products (with about 1 GByte to spare).
Customers who don't need a GUI may create a custom Revolution Pi image based on "Raspbian Lite" using our imagebakery scripts:
https://github.com/RevolutionPi/imagebakery https://github.com/RevolutionPi/imagebakery
- gregmac 7y agoWhy desktop as opposed to a server (headless) image? I would suspect it would be more common to connect via ethernet from a PC or laptop, vs local console. Especially for field servicing, carrying a laptop is simpler. In the case HMI is needed, installing the desktop is just some additional packages. This raises another question: what repository are you using? How are (security) updates handled, if at all?
- l1k 7y agoA lot of our customers have a background in automation and are used to Windows on their desktop PC, with little prior Linux experience. Shipping a desktop by default is intended to make their life easier. Since the image is based on Raspbian, updates are installed via apt-get as usual. There are some deb packages of our own pre-installed. Updates for those are made available via our apt repository at packages.revolutionpi.de.