Raspbian [1] is the name of the original community project to port Debian to armhf (armv6 hard float) which ran on the Raspberry Pi 1.
Raspberry Pi put our their own images based on this, and called it Raspbian until about 2020 [2] when they started calling it "Raspberry Pi OS" after they started producing aarch64 images.
This reminds me of a part I didn't mention in the article - they initially actually set up a second company called "Shady Apps" with a separate Developer account from which they upload the "people will buy anything for 99p" apps, on the basis that they would keep the "App Start" one clean for just the better quality ones.
One day Alex showed me a bunch of such apps they'd made - the "orgasm button" was one I can recall...
In many ways it was a really good first job for me - the people and dodgy business ongoings aside - what I needed at the time was to build stuff in my own way on my own terms, but with purpose. The next job was a bit of a shock, but it was another new experience.
Arduino is a for-profit company with open source hardware; Raspberry Pi is a charity with closed-source hardware.
Nothing wrong with either approach. But your comment makes out they're a for-profit company with closed-source hardware acting like the good guys.
Not sure it's fair to label them as just another company when they're not-for-profit and pump all their money into a) product development and b) education programmes.
To be honest, if the Pi was open source hardware, everyone would buy the clones (like they do with the Arduino ones) and the charity side would have much less funding.
I finally gave in and just installed the damn Reddit app. And now it sends me constant push notifications. I thought I found an obscure way to turn them off but now they're back sp I think I'll just do without Reddit.
I host a static website on a Raspberry Pi 3 and it's been running very well for about 3 years. It's static HTML and it also serves files. It's hosted by a provider with a "Pi Cloud". https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi
The website is https://www.piwheels.org - it's a Python package repository for Raspberry Pi users
It's served over 20M downloads, which is 70TB. Currently serving 1.2M downloads a month (4.4TB).
A cheap VPS would be easier, better and about the same price. But piwheels is a bit of a dogfooding project. But it works!
> In the past, we’ve indicated 2020 as a likely introduction date for Raspberry Pi 4. We budgeted time for four silicon revisions of BCM2711 (A0, B0, C0, and C1); in comparison, we ship BCM2835C2 (the fifth revision of that design) on Raspberry Pi 1 and Zero.
> Fortunately, 2711B0 has turned out to be production-ready, which has taken roughly 9–12 months out of the schedule.
For the eagle-eyed who noticed the tensorflow Arm wheel is not found on PyPI, it's actually on piwheels.org - a project I run which automates building all the Python packages on PyPI. In this case, the wheels were submitted to us from the TF team at Google. Raspbian is configured to use piwheels.org as an additional index so Raspberry Pi users get pre-built platform wheels just by typing "pip install".
Raspberry Pi put our their own images based on this, and called it Raspbian until about 2020 [2] when they started calling it "Raspberry Pi OS" after they started producing aarch64 images.
[1] https://www.raspbian.org/
[2] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-...
Further reading:
[4] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-no-longer-...
[5] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/602658/253655