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2025-03-23 |
New tool for building custom images for Raspberry Pi computers |
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The Raspberry Pi community just gained a new tool for creating custom distributions for the popular series of single board computers. Matt Lear writes: "When it comes to software on Raspberry Pi devices, one size doesn't always fit all. Raspberry Pi OS is ideal for many applications, but we recognise that it doesn't suit every use case or deployment model, particularly in a product that has a specific purpose. If you're building an embedded system or an industrial controller, you'll need complete control over the software resident on the device, and home users may wish to build their own OS and have it pre-configured exactly the way they want. For developers and organisations that require a custom software image, a flexible and transparent build system is essential; to support these customers, we have created rpi-image-gen, a powerful new tool designed to put you in complete control of your Raspberry Pi images.
rpi-image-gen is an alternative to pi-gen, which is the tool we use to create and deploy the Raspberry Pi OS distribution. rpi-image-gen is designed to generate highly customised software images for Raspberry Pi devices, and offers a very granular level of control over file system construction and software image creation." Details on how to build a custom Raspberry Pi distribution and some samples to show off the new tool can be found in Lear's news post. |
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