Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized single board computer. It uses an ARM1176JZF-S (ARM v6) 700 Mhz processor, an SD card for primary storage, and either 256 MB or 512 MB of RAM. It has two USB ports for additional devices or storage. The Raspberry Pi was the first device to be supported by arkOS.

Installing arkOS on the Raspberry Pi
Download the version of the arkOS Installer that corresponds to your operating system from the download page. Once downloaded, insert a blank SD card with at least 8GB of space into your computer, and run the installer, which should have added itself into your Applications menu. If you installed arkOS via the source package on Linux, you can run it by entering the directory you extracted the package to on the command line, then running.

The installer will come up and will walk you through the steps of installing arkOS to the SD card. First, it will ask you to choose the download server that is closest to you. Then, it will ask you to choose which device corresponds to your SD card.

After you’ve chosen a download server and disk device, the installer will automatically download the image from our servers, then write it to the device you select. This may take a few minutes, depending on the speed of your computer and your internet connection. Once the process is complete, the Installer will let you know and you can disconnect the SD card.

Starting Genesis
Connect the SD card to your Raspberry Pi, and plug the Raspberry Pi into an ethernet port on your home router. Start up the Pi by plugging in a power cable. Give it a minute to start up, then hop back onto your computer and connect to the following web address in your browser: http://arkOS:8000

For further information, see the official Getting Started guide.

Compatibility
The Raspberry Pi has limited CPU and RAM resources, making some server-side programming languages (and the software that uses them) like PHP pretty slow. arkOS fully supports the Raspberry Pi but you may encounter constraints when running too many types of software at once.

The Raspberry Pi has one networking port, making it unsuitable for many planned features of arkOS, including network control, DHCP, proxying, and so on. If you wish to use these features you may want to check out another that can support them.