welcome in this video I'm going to be taking a look at the newly released
Raspberry Pi OS so if you find this video helpful and you're in the market
for a new Raspberry Pi I'll put a link in the description to the Raspberry Pi
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me out a little bit and doesn't cost you anything extra I also put a link to my
Raspberry Pi playlist where you can find my Raspberry Pi projects so it's May of
2020 and Raspberry Pi has released their newest OS it's Raspberry Pi OS and this
is to replace raspbian OS so they've essentially renamed it to a better
reflect Raspberry Pi so in this video I'm going to take a look at some of the
new features of it so I'm on the Raspberry Pi website I'll click on
downloads I'll scroll down to Raspberry Pi OS it says previously called raspbian
I'll scroll down a little more and this is the version I'm using here it's the
Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit edition they do have a 64-bit edition in beta right now
so there are a few limitations using the 32-bit version I think you're only
allowed to have like three gigabytes of RAM per application or something like
that I don't use that much Ram so there are some limitations you can use that
beta if you need to overcome those limitations so I've already downloaded
this I'll open up the release notes here but before we read that I'll go into my
Raspberry Pi imager and I'll set this up so I haven't updated my Raspberry Pi
imager software I don't think there's a new version but I could be wrong so if I
hit choose OS it's already showing Raspberry Pi OS here so it must have
pulled down that information from the Internet I'll go to use custom because
I've already downloaded it so I have the previous version here you see it starts
with the date and the old one was called raspbian this says raspios buster and
if you're new to the Raspberry Pi you'll notice this is a zip file but you don't
actually have to unzip it the Raspberry Pi imager can deal with a zip file
I'll hit open I'll choose my SD card it's a 32 gig card
I'll hit write it's going to ask for my password I'll enter that and now it's
writing to the card so we'll take a look at some of the things here so I'm not
going to go through each one of these but it looks like they added a bookshelf
application they added the Raspberry Pi Diagnostics application and I did a
previous video where I use that you can use that to benchmark your card
they added a magnifier plugin that's probably for accessibility we scroll
down a little bit here it says the internal audio outputs enabled as
separate ALSA devices and it says magpie pre-install removed and chromium
is made the default application for PDF files and then there's some other
updates down here too so let's see how my image is going should be done here in
a second
okay so that finished so I'll remove the card and I'll boot it up in the
Raspberry Pi okay the system is booted so I'm going
to run through the setup here I'll speed up the video I'll slow it down if
anything has changed with this part I do have a video on setting this up the
setup that I use and that's in my Raspberry Pi playlist that I linked
below okay so I ran through the setup and it
rebooted and I've switched the resolution to 720p that makes everything
a little bigger on my screen typically I like to run it at 1080p
so the first thing I want to look at is the new bookshelf application so I'll go
to the Raspberry Pi icon in the upper left I'll go down to help and I'll
choose bookshelf okay so this has the Magpi it has books here pack space and
wireframe so if we went to read issue 94 I'll double click this it's going to
download it and it opened up in chromium because
chromium is the default PDF reader on the Raspberry Pi now and we see it put
it in the bookshelf directory of our home directory so that's pretty slick
let's go back into application so now this no longer has the cloud icon on it
if I want to delete it I can just right click on it and click delete item and
now if I want to use it again I'll have to re-download it from the cloud so this
is a pretty cool feature it's like a bookstore centered around the Raspberry
Pi and the cool thing is it's all free stuff so there's no lack of information
available so if you only had this resource to learn about the Raspberry Pi
you could learn a tremendous amount of stuff because these magazines are just
chock full of information on programming and using GPIO and things like that so
next I'll look at the Raspberry Pi Diagnostics so I want to go to the
Raspberry Pi menu again I'll go down here to accessories and then Raspberry
Pi diagnostics and this does the SD cards speed test so I'll run this test
should only do this on a new system and this is a new system ok so it passed
I'll hit show log and here we can see the specs of the SD card that I'm using
ok so I'll close out of this so the next thing was the internal audio outputs
were enabled as separate ALSA devices so if I click up here on the speaker
I can right click on that and choose analog or I can choose HDMI so I'm on a
monitor that has HDMI audio so I just use HDMI so next we'll take a look at
the magnifier so I'll go up to the Raspberry Pi menu I'll go down here to
preferences and recommended software so under universal access they have
magnifier here and this allows you to magnify parts of the screen so this is
nice if you're visually impaired they also have a screen reader that uses
speech and Braille so that's nice so I'll install these I'll hit OK
okay so it says install complete now I'll do a reboot
okay so the magnifiers in the upper right hand corner I'll open up a website
W ah and I paste s M return so I don't know if you can hear that very well but
that's the screenreader I'll hit okay I'll go to the magnifying glass and now
as I hover over parts of the screen it makes it a lot bigger I can also right
click on the magnet menu bar settings and go to magnifier settings as you
heard it read but you'll not be hi Rick bundle to break it open cynical and I
can change the settings here on how I want if I wanted rectangle circle things
like that so I'm probably not going to leave Orca on here but it does work if
someone doesn't need it so that's all I want to cover in this video
those are some nice upgrades to the system I don't really like when systems
change a lot when they don't need to so it was just some nice little upgrades so
that's all for this video if you have any questions please leave them in the
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