benn_88
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Software engineer at BBC. Ex Raspberry Pi. Into Python and Linux.
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Comment · 3 years ago
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.
[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-...
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, it was Magento. And you're right about the rest too :)
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Agreed!
Comment · 5 years ago
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...
Comment · 5 years ago
UK pants or US pants?
Comment · 5 years ago
Phew!
Comment · 5 years ago
Absolutely! It's what I needed at the time. An experience to learn from, plus getting paid to build something cool and prove myself a little.