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Sunday, December 6, 2020
I have several Raspberry Pi's. Four to be exact. I was never a fan of 32bit
systems running on my 64bit machines so I wasn't satisfied with the then Rasbian
operating system. For my earlier Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ I soon migrated to some
experimental Debian images that worked great and in cases where there were lapses
in hardware support, kernel hacking was a viable solution.
Eventually I had Ethernet, Wifi, Bluetooth and sound working flawlessly. That
was years ago. When the new Raspberry PI 4B came out I realized that none of
those images that worked on the 3 series, would work on them, no matter how much
hacking I tried. Fortunately, there are now images for the 4B that work out the
box. There are 64bit images for the Ubuntu distribution and they worked really
fine but I'm partial to Debian and plus there was an issue with Ubuntu not
booting without the SD card which I didn't like. So I was happy to back up
my /home directory and switch Operating systems. Anyhow enough background history
here is the link to get those tested and true Raspberry Pi Debian images for
the whole Pi family: Debian Images for the Raspberry Pi 4B and earlier. Enjoy,
happy hacking and thanks for reading.
[Raspberry Pi 4B and earlier images.]
Posted by Malleus at 02:49
Re posted on March 04, 2021 12:48 UTC