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Jan 18, 2024

Afrikalan

Media Player 4 Museum

Afrikalan

Last update 2018

http://www.afrikalan.org

Afrikalan is a system of small, low-cost educational computers, whose purpose is to spread access to free educational software in a context where a "traditional" computer is not the most appropriate solution.

Wanting to be a "free educational Swiss Army knife" adapted for use outside the North, Afrikalan can stream educational content on a "classic" desktop screen, old TV, or phones or tablets... The Raspberry Pi card (or derivatives) on which it is based allows you to do this while having low power consumption.

Afrikalan includes many free educational programs, as well as encyclopedias such as Wikipedia or Vikidia.

Afrikalan is strongly deployed in Mali thanks to the action of the Bilou Toguna association, but the entire system is under a free license so that any association or organization that wishes can use it for their projects.

Download:

SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/afrikalan/

Media Player 4 Museum

Last update 2023

https://mp4museum.org/

System Based on Raspbian Lite and OMXPlayer

Media Player 4 Museum

A minimalistic, Open Source Video Player.

Used by Museums and Artists (and Companies) worldwide. And here is why:

Loops all MP4 Files from USB Memory.

No nonsense!

Supports multiple sticks, using FAT, NTFS, HFS
Skip or Pause with a switch
Player will boot up within 30 seconds
Video files are sorted A..Z
System is read-only, no shut down needed
Will work perfectly 24/7 or on a timer switch
V5 Beta can play back 4k HEVC/h.265 on Raspi4 (experimental)
V5 Beta offers selection of sound output via /boot/alsa.txt

New in Version 5.5:

GPIO Filter to prevent static or other interference
Loop Mode now looks for “loop.” in the filename, eg: loop.mp3 or my1loop.mp4 & my2loop.mp4
Player Errors / Console Output is logged to /tmp/mp4museum.log
Media Partition is bigger, ExFat formatted and shows on Windows, too

Installation in 4 simple steps:

Download the Image for V3beta below...
Clone Image to a Card for Raspberry Pi (howto)
Attach USB Memory Stick with .mp4 files
Connect to screen and power supply

3D Print Enclosure

This will fit a Pi A+, which is compact with all connectors you want.

Download zipped STL files.
Print nicely.
Mount Pi with 4x M3 18mm.
STL Pi 3A+.
STL Pi 1 NEW

Download

Version 4 of may 6, 2019 ISO Image in ZIP

(MD5 Checksum c58007dec7ffb0e031f9dfac9fa2f550)

✓ Tested on Pi 3+, A+ (old model), Zero

Version 3 beta of august 23, 2018 ISO Image in ZIP

(download 575MB, image MD5 Checksum 63e7619d6fb983b884234b1ceb8e3b73)

✓ Tested on Pi 1, 3+, A+, Zero

Version 2 of may 26, 2017 ISO Image in ZIP

(506MB, MD5 Checksum 22489c0ea4e559a48ee4e4158663f9e2)

✓ Tested on Pi 2, 3, A+, ZeroW

Version 1 of november 18, 2016 ISO Image in ZIP

(684MB, MD5 Checksum faba1905352d7db74c5a3da139b5b221)

✓ Tested on Pi 2, 3, Zero, A+

Download:

MP4Museum Sync Master:

http://mp4museum.org/mp4m-sync-master.img.zip

MP4Museum Sync Slave:

http://mp4museum.org/mp4m-sync-slave.img.zip

Devuan

Last update 2024

https://devuan.org

http://devuanzuwu3xoqwp.onion

An Operating System (OS) is a set of programs that provides an interface to the hardware part of the computer: resource, device, power, and memory management belong to the OS.

The core of the OS in charge of operating the circuitry and managing peripherals is called the kernel. Devuan comes with the Linux kernel.

The first process launched after the kernel is loaded into memory is called init. This process bearing PID 1 is in charge of services running on the system: it ensures they start in order, verifies they are running fine and shuts them down. This initprocess MUST not die, or the whole system goes away with it. Therefore Devuan recommends using lean init systems that do one thing, and do it well. By default Devuan ASCII runs sysvinit but openrc is now an option at installation and other inits such as runit, s6and sinit are available for development.

Services take care of normal functionality of your system: networking, logging, authentication, language, dictionary, search, software updates, printing, graphical display, etc.

On top of the OS come applications. Usually, a complete operating system distribution includes a number of pre-configured applications (e.g., the desktop). The Devuan default desktop is Xfce. Cinnamon, KDE, LXQt and MATE are available from tasksel during installation and a number of other graphical environments are available post-install.

Credentials:

user: devuan
pass: devuan

Settings:

menu-config

Edit config.txt or cmdline.txt:

sudo nano /boot/broadcom/config.txt
sudo nano /boot/broadcom/cmdline.txt
sudo nano /boot/broadcom/network-.con

Download:

Raspberry Pi 1:

Raspberry Pi 2B, 3B, 3B+, Zero 2W:

Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+, 3A+ 32bits:

Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+, 3A+ 64bit:

Raspberry Pi 4B, 400:

Raspberry Pi 4B, 400 64bit:

Raspberry Pi Zero, 0W:

Forum:

Pandora FMS OS

Last update 2020

https://pandorafms.org

Pandora FMS es un software de monitorización para gestión de infraestructura TI. Esto incluye equipamiento de red, servidores Windows y Unix, infraestructura virtualizada y todo tipo de aplicaciones. Pandora FMS tiene multitud de funcionalidades, lo cual lo convierte en un software de nueva generación que cubre todos los aspectos de monitorización necesarios para su organización.

Docs:

https://pandorafms.com/manual/es/documentation/03_monitoring/15_raspberry_monitoring

Pandora FMS 7.0 – NG 758 LTS:

Raspberry Image (Pandora + Satelite + eHorus) :

SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pandora/

GitHub:

https://github.com/pandorafms/pandorafms

Pi PXE Server

Last update 2018

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pi-network-boot/

Pi PXE server for network booting

Contains Raspbian Lite configured with:

dhcp, tftp & nfs

Based on http://github.com/beta-tester/Rpi-PXE-Server

Run this image on one Pi.

This provides PXE boot images to

- PCs ( Ubuntu /Raspberry Pi Desktop x86)

- Pi3s (Raspbian Lite)

Set wifi in wpa_supplicant.conf for shared internet

Download:

SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pi-network-boot/

Malinux Télé

Last update 2016

https://download.tuxfamily.org/afrikalan/archive-malinux/index.html

Malinux Télé is a free educative operating system for raspberry pi, desktop computers, or linux-sunxi compatible devices, designed for children of Mali (west africa).

Malinux Télé embeds:

- “classical” educational software like Tuxpaint, tuxtype, Tuxmath, Gcompris and JClic.Retour ligne manuel,

-A copy of Vikidia (a wikipedia-like encyclopedia for children) and a copy of the pepit.be website (educational activities in flash).

- Activities allowing children to practice reading in French (official language) and in bambarra (children’s mother tongue), made for needs of the project.

Various adaptations has been made to make the system usable on an old TV screen, and to provide better longevity to it

Download:

RASPBERRY SLIDESHOW

Last update 2024

https://www.binaryemotions.com/digital-signage/raspberry-slideshow/

Raspberry Slideshow is focused on quick-to-set-up image and video slideshows for the Raspberry Pi. Insert a USB key with image/video files or retrieval informations and boot: the system will display a slideshow of them in a full-screen view.

Setup: how to use (functioning modes)

1. Local media

Put image and/or video files into a USB stick with one only partition.

The USB key must be formatted in vFAT/NTFS or ext4.

Files must be put in the root folder of the key (not inside directories).

Connect the USB stick to the Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Slideshow and boot. That’s all.

2. Retrieve media from remote URLs: remote-urls.txt

Put a text file named remote-urls.txt into a USB stick.

With this file you will specify LAN or Internet URLs of remote images and/or videos hosted by a Web or FTP server, one per line (please see the examples below).

Connect the USB stick to the Raspberry Pi and boot.

3. Retrieve media from a local Windows (Samba) share: network-share.txt (donors’ build only)

Put a text file named network-share.txt into a USB stick.

With this file you will specify the local network folder share in the form: //192.168.0.100/myShare. All contained media will be automagically copied into the R-Pi internal card and slided.

Share user must be “guest”, with “guest” password (see FAQ if you need to change it).

Connect the USB stick to the Raspberry Pi and boot.

4. Point a remote list of images: serverlist.txt (donors’ build only)

Put a text file named serverlist.txt into a USB stick.

With this file you will specify the URL of a remote server list (a text list of images/videos). This way, media list is managed server-side. See the examples below.

Connect the USB stick to the Raspberry Pi and boot.

The refresh feature (use with 3. and 4.): serverlist-refresh.txt (donors’ build only)

Raspberry Slideshow can refresh the media list (remote list links or network share content) at given intervals, in order to slide images and videos according to server changements.

You can accomplish this by saving a file named serverlist-refresh.txt (together with serverlist.txt or network-share.txt, of course) into the USB key, in which you’ll specify the refresh time value. System is smart enough to actually re-download all remote media only when it sees changements.

Put value in one single line without carriage return.

Refresh value is in seconds (so, for an hour, just save 3600 in the file).

Please see the examples once again.

Automatic photos rotation (donors’ build only)

An optional photos rotation based on their EXIF informations is available; enable in /etc/rs.conf via SSH as root (refer to the FAQ page). This will increase the boot time.

Rules

All USB files (media and text) are copied into the internal Raspberry’s SD-CARD:
– if the USB key is inserted: at every reboot, SD-CARD files are updated and hence played according to the key’s content;
– if the USB key is not inserted: at every reboot, media are played from the internal cache. So, after the first run, you can unplug the USB key.
Functioning modes can be combined: you can put files, remote-urls.txt, serverlist.txt and network-share.txt into the USB key.
Media will be displayed in a name-based order (donors’ build only), first remote-urls.txt-related content, then serverlist.txt-related media, network-share.txt and then USB contained media, followed by name-based order of remote-urls’/serverlist’s/network-share’s/USB key’s videos. So, images come first and then videos. This behaviour is by design and unmodifiable.
Accepted image formats are jpeg (.jpeg or .jpg), png, gif.
Accepted video formats are the ones played by omxplayer, mostly mp4 files.

Examples

All examples below concern images, but they are valid for videos and/or images+videos, too.

How to play two local images plus two remote ones:

a) Copy the image files into the USB key and create a text file named remote-urls.txt in which you will specify the remote image locations (URLs), one per line:

b) save remote-urls.txt into the USB key, too.

c) Insert the key into the Raspberry and (re)boot. In this example, three images (not four) will be played, because two are identical.

How to use serverlist.txt – server content based slideshow:

a) Save the URL of the remote list into a text file named serverlist.txt then save this file into the USB key (in the following image, the file is named images.txt). Use one single line without carriage return.

b) Make your LAN or Internet server hosts the file images.txt (here a LAN web server is used). File content is, again, just a simple list of URLs, for example:

c) Insert USB key into the Raspberry Pi and (re)boot.

How to use network-share.txt – network folder content based slideshow:

a) Create a text file named network-share.txt inside the USB key.

Content example: //192.168.0.100/myOpenShare.

On the server end, myOpenShare user must be “guest” with “guest” password set (see FAQ if you need to change it).

b) Insert USB key into the Raspberry Pi and (re)boot.

Credentials:

user: pi
password: live

then, once in, type: sudo -i for administrative rights (root)

Download:

Instructions:

https://www.binaryemotions.com/write-instructions/

Page Download:

https://www.binaryemotions.com/raspberry-slideshow-download/

SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/raspberrypictureframe/

For Berryboot Installer:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/berryboot-updated-images/files/Raspberry-Pi/raspberry_slideshow_v15.2_rpi2_rpi3_rpi4_2022.05.02_berryboot.img.gz/download

Arch-WiPi

Last update 2015

https://haydenjames.io/download-arch-linux-raspberry-pi-wifi-access-point-setup/

Are you looking into turning your Raspberry Pi into a Wireless router? Then I’ve created a tiny Arch Linux ARM + create_ap (by oblique) based setup, packaged into a downloadable image that may interest you. Once booted the access point will create SSID ArchWiPI via network address translation (NAT).

UPDATE: Today I received my LB-Link long Range WiFi USB Antenna which replaced my Edimax EW-7811Un If you prefer mini dongles the best I’ve tested so far is TP-LINK TL-WN725N Wireless N Nano USB Adapter. These were manufactured for two very different purposes, I still love both. The LB-Link has more than double the range while the Edimax is about the length of a finger tip! But for the this project of turning the Raspberry Pi into a wireless router the LB-Link is a must have! Here are some comparisons of signal strength from about 20 feet away in another room. The LB-Link is on the left and Edimax on the right….

Raspberry Pi 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B Following this guide: