One of the more exciting prospects upon receiving one of the earliest Raspberry Pi boards back in 2012 was that it was a fully-functional desktop computer in the palm of your hand. In those far-off ...

Every time a new Raspberry Pi mini PC is launched the question is always asked whether the tiny computer is capable of replacing a more powerful and much larger ” desktop PC”. Now with the launch of ...

Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to manipulate the pins on an old parallel port, then most commonly used for printers ...

I've been working for most of 2018 on exactly how to make a Raspberry Pi into a good desktop. It's mostly a slow evolution as I try new things, but I've been making some really good progress, and ...

VNC is just straight-dump-of-the-framebuffer-over-network. Extremely useful, and great for virtual 'over the shoulder' type support; but it limits you to 1 user per desktop at any given time. Also, ...