The Raspberry Pi 4 has 3 models with 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB of RAM. We explore memory usage of Chromium, Mathematica, and other applications.
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Author: Luke Baker
Deepin Music – a beautiful and simple music player
Deepin Music is a free and open source beautiful and simple music player. It supports viewing lyrics during playback, and plays lossless audio. Luke reviews the software.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Screencasting – Week 13
This is a weekly blog about the Raspberry Pi 4 (“RPI4”), the latest product in the popular Raspberry Pi. This week, we examine screencasting on the RPI4.
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LXMusic – music player designed for the minimalist
LXMusic is a music player designed for the minimalist. It’s written in the C programming language, and uses GTK+.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Reading Comics – Week 12
The best open source comic book readers for Linux are YACReader, MComix, and QComicBook. Let’s see how they perform on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Melody – music player written in Vala
Melody is a music player designed for elementary OS but runs on other Linux distributions. Luke puts Melody under the microscope.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Home Theater – Week 11
Kodi is free, open-source software for managing your local collection of movies, television shows, music, and photos. It’s the finest free home theatre software available.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Watching Video – Week 10
This week, I’m looking at straightforward video playback from locally stored media. Does the RPI4 have sufficient grunt to be a capable video player?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing PDFs – Week 9
In this week’s blog, Luke puts a wide range of PDF viewers under the microscope on the Raspberry Pi 4. How do they compare to the pre-installed solutions offered by Raspbian?
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Remote Desktop – Week 8
Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer on a local screen. For this article, the local screen is a Windows machine, the host is the RPI4.
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