• RetroPie 

• Switching MoviePi to LibreELEC for Kodi.  Done, works great - Notes

• Manjaro KDE Plasma for primary desktop - now a RPi4 w/SSD
  Runs Great!  Test Notes below, Config and Project Log on MiPi Page
• Q4OS has been rock-solid for my GramPi users (XP Look-a-Like)
  Still running stretch version due to COVID-19 lockdowns - unable to update
• DietPi: is still my GoTo for server-like projects.  HomePi, CutiePi & others.

• Arch Linux via RaspArch.  I bricked it and aborted testing.  Notes
• Plasma Big Screen - Quick peek @ Beta.  Nice - Notes

• NEMS Linux - Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server for RPi.  Notes
  Very Well done, runs great.  Little overkill for our home network

• Kano OS - DIY system for kids, REALLY NICE!  Future uncertain.  Notes

• Ubuntu-Mate - Ubuntu on RPI.  Aborted tests - Notes
• Sugar on a Stick - from Sugar Labs & OLPC project.  Done, it works - Notes 

• Raspberry PI OS (PKA Rasbian) - OK, but more than a name change! - Notes

• Endless OS 3.7.8 (ARM) - still Preview/Beta(?) - Notes
  Looked REALLY good, will follow the project and retry w/ next release
  
  
• Manjaro - Played w/ it a few years ago on x86.  Arm now avail.   
• RPi 4 KDE Plasma Version - LOOKS & WORKS GREAT!  Notes
• RPi 4 XFCE Version - Seemed nice, but not for me.  Notes

• openSUSE - Done for now.  I'll watch for Leap versions
• openSUSE RPi4 (XFCE/Tumbleweed) - Works, but rough - Notes
• openSUSE RPi4 Enlightenment E20 ... Will wait for Leap

• My favorites as of 1/1/2020
• Buster Raspbian on my PI 4 for now (via Noobs to be safe),  Stretch everywhere else
• Q4OS: still no RPI Buster version (waited a while for Stretch too)
• DietPi: by far the best/easiest for server-like jobs.  Struggles with Buster here too, sticking with DietPi 
  Stretch Legacy Image

Latest Tests

LibreELEC

Plasma Bigscreen

Arch Linux

NEMS Linux

2020 Tests (Part 2)

2020 Test Notes (Part 2)

Kano OS

Ubuntu-Mate

Sugar OS

• Overall:  It works, seems dated.   Interesting though, I'll keep image around to revisit
  OLPC has used Sugar for years, interesting project. Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) for quickstart
  
• Motivation:   Looking for starter environment for 4 year old.  
  
• Sugar is more of a Learning Platform, evolves as child grows.  wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/What_is_Sugar
• SoaS is bootable image for pi, Fedora based (bad luck with Fedora on RPI in past, but quick way to start)
• Should be able to install Sugar on OS of my choice if it works out
• Install Notes
• Documentation is sort of spread around, will start here: 
   https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/Install_with_liveinst
• It's different!  REALLY DIFFERENT!
• Friggin Fedora!  Re-downloaded to retrace my install steps and hung in Fedora Installer
• Problem appears to be Fedora 32 from SoaA download page 
• Reverted back to Fedora 31 and life was much better 
  https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/31/Spins/armhfp/images/Fedora-SoaS-armhfp-31-1.9-sda.raw.xz
• Initial setup via Fedora Anaconda
• hint:  set WiFi here, I fumbled with Net Config in Sugar GUI
• Normal Setup, timezone, users ...
• Sugar Initial Setup
• Create user
• Select Grade - options were:  Preschool, K-7, High School or Adult
• Nav Notes:  
• Move Mouse Pointer to any corner to reveal Neighborhood, Group, Home, Activity & Journal
• Right Click on X-Stickman in middle for Settings, shutdown/restart, etc
• List View (upper right icon) to enable/disable other apps.  Including terminal, Sys Logs, 
• Hardware - most appear to work, may have to dig into Fedora to config
• Bluetooth - looked like Bluetoothctl was installed, but didn't test/fiddle
• Network Adapters
• Ethernet worked right out of the gate.  Had to boot to switch to WiFi
• WiFi worked.  Set up is in 'Neighborhood'.  But odd - SSID's appeared/disappeared
• Networking - different, not samba-like.  Peer2peer mesh neighborhood
• Looks like Mic and Camera would help for many apps
• Apps/Software - see http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/.  
• Not overly active, many older apps but a few added in past 2 years
• Look/Feel is dated
• Interesting 'Collections' of apps, like "Preschool"
• Preinstalled Apps are interesting, not sure setting 'grade' during setup adjusts
• Developer Resources @ https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs

Raspberry PI OS

2020 Tests (Part 1)

2020 Test Notes (Part 1)

Endless OS

Manjaro (XFCE)

Manjaro (KDE)

openSUSE (XFCE)

• Overall:  Lost interest.  There was some potential on RPI4, but not for my project.  RPI4 is too Hot!
  
• Motivation:  Learning experience:  QEMU+Wine.  IF it works, I'll add x86 emulation to Pi 4 GramPi!  
• QEMU info @ https://www.qemu.org/
• RPI 4 thread to watch @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1507593
• Readme on github, Downloads on Sourceforge
• Install Notes:
• win98-pi.zip = "Raspbian Lite based image which boots straight into Windows 98 (qEmu)"
• Started with win98-pi.zip image, flashed 8g SD using Etcher 
• Whoa!  It IS win 98!  My mouse (or trackpad) didnt work, but I looked around with win keyboard!
• No network, Win 98 Second Edition 4.10.2222A, actually RUNS PRETTY WELL on Pi 3B+!
• SSH server is running - pi/raspberry login
• Impressive, but not what I was looking for ... will retry with other image!
• 
  

• Overall:  it runs, takes a lot of work.  Not for the faint of heart .... 
  
• Motivation:  Haven't played with FreeBSD for decades!  RPI is a simple way to check it out.
• Started w/ this doc - https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
• Install Notes:
• Started with RPI2 image, Etcher seemed to work fine to create SD
• Boots very sloowwly
• Came up fine - default users were root/root or freebsd/freebsd
• Ethernet and SSH came up after install ... that was nice
• Quite plain-jane (CLI), but may play with installing GUI
• VERY little pre-installed - even had to install package management ... Sloooow
• Didn't bother to test audio
• wifi - some futzing.  See handbook config-network-setup & network-wireless. 
  EDIMAX usb was detected, but I had to do some tweaking/configuring to get it rolling 
• Installed wpa_supplicant
  
  pkg install wpa_supplicant
• created minimal /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
  
  # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
               ssid="<ssid>"
               psk="<passkey>"
               key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
• dmesg to see device info and find adapter
  
  rtwn0 on uhub1
rtwn0: <Realtek 802.11n WLAN Adapter, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 4> on usbus0
rtwn0: MAC/BB RTL8188CUS, RF 6052 1T1R
• Added interface using ifconfig
  
  ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev rtwn0
• bring it up:  Ifconfig wlan0 up
• and a boot or two during the process
  
• x/gui ... reserve some time, it's like the good old days:  /handbook/x11.html
• Got x11 installed and working, but never found a display mgr to try. 
  gnome3, kde5, xfce4 in handbook, but not found in repository
• Gave up

• Overall:  May require a tweak or two - but nice!    Came up nicely ... nice suite of pre-installed net tools. 
  Prob not for me - pretty small screen, but I'll dig into design and tools, lots to learn here.  
  
• Motivation:  Stumbled upon this - looking for a probe like gizmo to keep an eye on our internet connection
• Looks like site is being recovered from a hit - rebuild in process, not all images downloadable at this point - will test w/ stuff that's there initially, may need to revist ...
  
• Nice/Simple - designed for small touchscreen ... too bad it wasnt not MY Touchscreen.  Hardware dependent
• Install Notes:
• Hardware is a tad specific - I'll need to tweak to get my TFT display working, but that's OK
  SSH & VNC seems to work in meantime - VNC seems to be good representation 
• Raspbian Stretch under the hood 
• 'Stealth' mode hangs my Pi - may dig in later
• 'Active' Mode - Ping, Trace Route, Speed Test,  ETH0/WLAN details, Note pad with popup keyboard & network diagramer/eye test
• 'Pen Test' Mode - Port Scan, Wireshark, Wardrive (no worky)
• <still playing>
• To replace Kuman 3.5in LCD by my Adafruit PiTFT Plus 3.5 (P2411B) ...I stumbled thru the following with this sing-a-long from adafruit - https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-3-dot-5-touch-screen-for-raspberry-pi/overview
• First:  Switch back to HDMI
  
  cd ./LCD-show/
./LCD-hdmi
• Then ... sing-a-long @ https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-3-dot-5-touch-screen-for-raspberry-pi/overview
  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts/master/adafruit-pitft.sh
  chmod +x adafruit-pitft.sh
  sudo ./adafruit-pitft.sh (installs PiTFT)
• Finally, reboot and calibrate as needed.  

• Overall:  Aborted - I accidentally overwrote the Kali sd card, never finished testing.  Will retry in future...
  It came up nicely, a little light in terms of available tools - significant subset of Kali from what I saw
• Motivation:  Interested in a RPI-based network security probe, simply to watch over 'things' on our network
• Install Notes:
• Whoops!  Shot one of my toes off right out of the gate!  
• Download RPI images from www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-arm-images instead of main download page.  First image (kali-linux-light-2019.1-armhf.img) did NOTHING!
• Started with image marked Kali Linux RaspberryPi 2 and 3.  Will play with on RPI 3 & RPI2
  
• Created 8g sd boot using my new favorite - Etcher.io - and image=kali-linux-2019.1-rpi3-nexmon.img.xz
• Came right up on RPI3 - some prompt to create windows or something - I clicked on 'default'
• Oh!  I See!  Initial dialog was probably for setting up xfce panel and such!  Pretty much a blank desktop w/ app menu via right mouse click ... I should read those messages!  There is a Panel icon is setting to put things right - remember to save setting when you logoff
• SSH was live right out of the box
• No Audio, first glance thru /boot/config.txt looked like much/all commented out
• Software?  Attempted to apt-get a few familiar tools - nothing found yet.  It is what it is?  Vim?
• MetaSploit came right up - I've been interested in this for a long time.  Much to learn
• Abort - I'll redo this one in the future

• Overall:  Didn't go well ... Quite unstable/wobbly.  Odd hangs & periods where it was painfully slow.  
• I even backtracked, started over w/ aarch64 image ... I must have done something wrong!
• Motivation:  Working on a separate Redhat project, need to bring myself back up to speed, Pi will be handy.   
  Also my first/fav flavor of Linux a looong time ago, well deserving of a RPI boot!
• Reads:
• StackExchange PiDora vs Fedora ARM thread (circa 2015, updated in 2017)
• Fedora Workstation vs Server Editions (2018)
• Settled on Fedora Arm over PiDora, which seemed a tad stale
• Install notes - https://arm.fedoraproject.org/
• Yikes!  MANY flavors - KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Mate, Sugar ... Chose default:  Fedora Workstation 
• Arm Doc is here -> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
• Tried both armv7 and aarch64 images on RPI3 B+
• Used etcher.io to create SD's 
• This thing was VERY slow/nonresponsive at times.  Updates  Hard to tell what was going on?  
  It settled down over time and was quite usable, but VERY strange/slow episodes.  
• Ghastly slow/buried Pi with first run of firefox.  Couldn't even get monitor up to see what was going on
• Killed FireFox, fired-up monitor and relaunched FF - ran fine, of course!  Watched pot!  Updates?
• Still a tad slow (jerky mouse pointer) after clean boot. nothing obvious, settled down after a few 
• Odd hang in middle of the night - on signon screen clock display was alternating between two times approx an hour apart.  
• Stability & Performance skitzy - I ran monitor and log viewer most of the time.  Hard to tell what was going on
• Hardware
• Ethernet: worked out of the box, but some odd messages during boot - link not ready BS
• Bluetooth:  Flakey
• Fumbled getting BT Apple Keyboard working, had to connect USB kb initially
• BT Speaker seemed to make BT struggle for its life before dying - system log "Hardware error"
• Power Management:  Good!  Even showed battery levels for BT keyboard *and* put monitor to sleep
  BUT ...  Auto Screen Lock screwed me, could not get login screen up had to boot
• Audio:  HDMI sound worked out of the get-go, no obvious access to 3.5mm jack. 
  BT speaker was a fail - recognized as audio (headphones), seemed to try hard to pair, but no worky

2018 Tests (Part 2)

• Overall:  Great way to experiment with a variety of Honeypots - I'll keep mine running for a while
• Project is a little stale (older OS & tools), no changes since 2016
  If/when I deploy a honeypot, I'll probably build one with latest/greatest version of selected tools
• There is more here than doc describes - found a number of additional tools (see list below)
• Moved mine to a RPI v1 Model B w/ edimax wifi adapter, works fine 
• Motivation:  Have had a Honeypot on ToDo list for a very long time - curious, interested in learning more
• Notes - singing along @ https://redmine.honeynet.org/projects/honeeepi/wiki
• Image didn't boot on PI Zero (of course) ... worked fine on RPI 3 via ethernet
• Switched to RPI 1 Model B, works fine with USB WiFi (edimax adapter)
• dhcp and ssh (@ port 9002) on by default
• Hmmm?  Had to sudo apt-get install raspi-config ... Doc mentioned it, but it wasn't there 
• Had a couple of unscheduled reboots - may have been my impatience on RPI 1 
• 32g SD is probably an overkill for testing/playing, I re-imaged with a 16g SD for my purposes
• Apps/Addons appear to come from raspbian repo (jesse), I found what I needed to play
• Commandline WiFi setup (I forgot) @ https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md
• Honeypot playtime - quite a few preinstalled tools - even some that were not in doc
• Glastopf v3.1.3-dev: Web App HoneyPot - project is winding down, glastopf.org -> mushmush.org
• Came right up on Honeeepi ... Played a little, may revisit
• Marked as 'Maintenance' status on mushmush.org
• Know Your Tool paper is interesting - how it works
• Github project @ https://github.com/mushorg/glastopf 
• Looks like snare is new web app honeypot used in conjunction with tanner ('the brains')
• Conpot v0.5.1:  Industrial Controls Honeypot - very interesting - more @ http://conpot.org/
• Honeeepi includes a number of ICS templates - meter, ipmi, tank monitor, etc
• Seemed to fire up and run, but I need to learn MUCH more
• Github project @ https://github.com/mushorg/conpot - seems to be active/current
• Dionaea v0.1.0: Captures attack payloads and malware.  Looks interesting (for IoT?), but will take effort 
• Seemed to run initially, but aborted on subsequent attempts - need to play more
• Project may have changed hands - https://www.honeynet.org/project/Dionaea, but lots-o broken links
• This doc looks pretty good - https://dionaea.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Github project @ https://github.com/DinoTools/dionaea
• Cowrie v2016/08/22 :  Telnet and SSH (and more?) Honeypot. 
• Seems to run right out the box, some research and fiddling to do.  I trapped myself accidentally!
• Homepage & Doc @ http://www.micheloosterhof.com/cowrie/
• Github project @ https://github.com/micheloosterhof/cowrie
• Kippo:  Bruteforce SSH Honeypot 
• Was in doc, but no sign of Kippo on honeeepi I downloaded 
• Github project @ https://github.com/desaster/kippo
• Did not attempt to install yet
• Amun v0.1.1:  A Python Honeypot - Looks like an old project (last update 2014)
• HowTo not in Honeeepi doc - worked off of files in /honeeepi/amum and got it running - no testing
• Start w/ instructions in INSTALL file - will take some poking to really play
• Project appears to be @ https://sourceforge.net/projects/amunhoney/
• Honeyd v1.6d:  Honeypot Daemon - virtual hosts w/ various personalities (OS, apps, etc) 
• Was not listed in Honeepi doc, but installed and seems to work
• Start @ /honeepi/honeyd/README and/or man honeyd
• Old project - circa 2007 - website is alive @ http://www.honeyd.org
• Snort v2.9.7.0 GRE (Build 149) - Intrusion Detection 
• Noted in honeeepi doc but no instructions - it does seem to be installed and functional
• A long road, but start @ snort.org there is a lot to this one
• Right/wrong or not knowing any better, here's what I ran to test 
   sudo snort -d -h 192.168.1.0/24 -l /home/pi/log -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
• ntopng v2.5.160924 - Traffic Analysis (nice)
• Also noted in honeepi project notes but no instructions - it also DOES seem to be there & work!
• Looks like a trial license - runs for a few minutes?  Mine ran beyond expiration
• Doc @ https://www.ntop.org/support/documentation/documentation/
• To get it rolling
• Start the service via sudo service ntopng start
• point browser to http://<honeeepi-ip>:3000
• login as admin/admin
  
• Stop via sudo service ntopng stop (of course)
• <Still sniffing around ... quite a bit on here ... possibly more to come>
•  Odds-N-ends
• Nice list of Honeypots @ https://github.com/paralax/awesome-honeypots

• Overall:  In Process, but looks VERY promising!   
• Gateway is still under development (Experimental), but definitely worth following this project
• I'll keep my IoT gateway alive and continue playing as the project matures
• Gateway Remote Access appears to be well thought out - has been a DIY obstacle for me
• I need zigbee & z-wave for my smart world - wonder if there is a combo USB
• Experimental - Announced in Feb 2018
• Motivation: Ongoing attempt to tame our 'Smart Home' - too many hubs & apps and untrusted cloud collectors/controllers
• Notes as I go - https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/
• Quick/Small download and painless sd create via etcher 
• Booted right up
• It's headless, OS access not intended - no login or ssh or GUI by default
• You can add file called 'ssh' to boot partition if you really need to poke around
• I initially logged in via Ethernet cable, but looks like I should have connected to its WiFi Hostspot 
• Accessed via http://gateway.local
• Created https://<myhub>.mozilla-iot.org during initial setup (bookmark/remember it)
• RPI V2 w/ EDIMAX WiFi adapter seemed to work fine ... but I'll redo on RPI3 for bluetooth
• RPI3 redo - this time following the instructions(!) and a WeMo Switch to see how this thing works
• Setup via phone by connecting to "Mozilla IOT Gateway" SSID
• Did an update just to get the witches out - updated to 0.3.1
• RPI3 redo AGAIN - this time I WILL REALLY follow instructions 
• Etcher.io is really nice!  It even burns sd using zipped image
• Didn't forget to update - back to 0.3.1
• Reclaimed my domain from previous install - that took a while
• Odd behavior on macbook via chrome (coudnt access menu) - switched to linux desktop, chrome worked fine.  
• Crap!  No WeMo!  Current hardware support @ github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Supported-Hardware
• Installed GPIO adapter for time being 
• how2 @ github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Configuring-GPIO-for-use-with-the-gpio-adapter
• Hooked upped my breadboard, will play with gateway like this for a while

• Overall on DietPi:  Works GREAT!  I think it may be my new starting point for Raspbian PI projects!
• Working on a couple of server-like projects, DietPi seems like a great quick-start - Looks nice!
• Lightweight/Optimized OS:  "Give your single-board computer lightweight justice."
• Interesting comparison to Rasbian Lite
• Install guide @ http://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9#p9
• Versions for a wide variety of Single Board Computers - some very interesting alternatives on web site
• Notes
• Very small/quick download (like 80M zip file) contains image, hash and readme
• Booted up and dropped me right into install menu, quite nice- EVEN via SSH!
• Appeared to expand FS automatically, looks like much will be done 
• username/pw: root/dietpi
• DietPi-Config is quite nice - quick setup/customization.  Notes
• Display - GPU/RAM memory split is nice + LCD Panel addon (but not mine)
• Audio - Quite a few soundcards preset
• Performance tune is nice - Overclock profiles!
• Network/NAS setup in config seems handy
• Tools/Benchmarks in config:  great idea for tweaking!
• Software installs
• Nice collection of 'Optimized' software - Desktops, Remote access, etc
• Additional software in menu appears to be subset of Raspbian repository
• I installed favorite loose-ends manually using sudo apt-get
• Some VERY interesting optimized software - actually distracted me from initial project
• RPi-Monitor: web interface system stats. More info rpi-experiences.blogspot.fr/p/rpi-monitor.html
• Shairport-sync preinstalled *and* functional!  Huge time saver for HomePi and CutiePi updates
• MotionEye: web interface & surveillance for your camera - DietPi Notes
• Home Assistant: open-source home automation platform
• CloudPrint: print server for google cloud print - It's CUPS!  
• Remot3.it: (Weaved) access your device over the internet (one of my favs)
• <there are A LOT of great packages in here - Full Details & Doc HERE>
• Notes from testing
• Audio - use dietpi-config to change soundcard/output options (e.g. hdmi to 3.5mm)
• Little bump w/wifi - seemed to have dropped connection, re-ran install while wired ... will revisit
• Network shares - Little fumbling to turn on ... samba appears to be option in dietpi-config
• Multiple GUI desktops offered, I used LXDE, worked great on RPI v2
• Still no sign of power management (DPMS, specifically) 
• Rebooted my test SD (8g) on a PI Zero just for the heck of it ... quite impressive
• RPi-Monitor, MotionEye (w/camera), Home Assistant and Remot3.it installed and running
• Idles around 2%-10% CPU (not counting htop)
• Running approx 15% CPU with MotionEye (streaming video)
• Shairportsync wouldn't run - blew-up (illegal Inst) - I didn't mess with it
• Simply a quick little test, but performance looked very promising

• Overall on Stretch:  Time to Upgrade.  Looks REALLY good.  Raspbian is coming along nicely!
• Current release of RPI official OS, played w/ this a few months ago - time to revisit and upgrade!
• Notes 
• Decided to start via NOOBS.  Wanted to see other OSes offered up during install - Nothing of interest
• Install is VERY EASY via NOOBS
• Hardware/peripherals worked right out of the box - even a bluetooth speaker
• Noticed FTP feature in GUI file manager - VERY Handy feature!
• Stumbled upon a nice jessie to stretch update HowTo, seemed to work well

• Overall on Parrot:  Looked GOOD on RPI 2!   A little light on preinstalled tools, will revisit again
  
  • I will Redo this one with a larger SD (8g was tight) and test using a RPI 3
  • listed as 'experimental' on downloads page ... https://www.parrotsec.org/download-other.fx
  • Still digging around for readme/release notes, etc - https://cdimage.parrotsec.org/parrot/iso/arm/rpi/
    
• Parrot Security Project @ https://www.parrotsec.org/index.php 
  "... GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian designed with Security, Development and Privacy in mind."
• I've been waiting for this one!  Switched to Parrot for security testing a while ago on my netbook. 
• nice selection of security tools - better than Kali, IMHO
• Install notes
• Initial tests on RPI2 w/ Edimax Wifi adapter and 8g SD, will redo on PI 3 if I decide to keep it around
• Automatically expanded filesystem on initial boot
• Firefox kept rolling over (crash) when it first came up 
  
• upgraded to see if FF would settle (apt-get upgrade) - Took hours!
• Firefox still crashing, installed FF ESR (atp-get install firefox-esr)
• Firefox settled down after reboot - not sure if reboot or ESR install or combination fixed it
• Updates/Software
• Had to set a root password - strange authentication errors during AutoUpdate & some app startups
  (sudo passwd root).  Default password supposed to be toor, but I had to set it
  
• Strange warning when software installed, supposedly simply an FYI sort of warning
  W: http: aptMethod::Configuration: could not load seccomp policy: Invalid argument
• Looks like a well stocked software repository - Synaptic Software MGR is easy
• No sound via hdmi or 3.5mm jack - didn't fiddle with it, but noticed that alsa stuff was installed
• Performance was respectable - even on RPI V2!  Very responsive/usable
• One little glitch/hang that forced a reboot late in install - when futzing with Firefoxes.  No details
• Pretty tight on 8g SD card!  I'd say 16g minimum if you are planning on capturing traffic
  
• Apps
• Appears to be subset of tools that normally come pre-installed w/ Parrot ... will dig more
• Rats!  No OpenVAS vulnerability scanner, it was nice to have it preinstalled on Parrot
  
• Quick test of a few apps that would be handy on this thing
• Wireshark seemed to work.  Watched net traffic on ethernet and wifi (edimax usb)
• Nmap/Zenmap worked fine
• Etherape OK
• many more to test here
  

• RPI w/ Touch Screen
• Adafuit's PiTFT 3.5 Kernel image - OS worked great.  A few notes, will be using for Touch Screen development environment
• Re4son's Kali-PI.  Preconfigured image that includes TFT Touchscreen interface to Kali Security Tools.  See notes:  Twas a struggle, aborted for now (using touch screen for another project).
• Played with Retropie 4.3 - retro gaming for xmas.  Not for me, but it did work fine with considerable fiddling
  
  

• New Activity, page setup in process
  
  
• Q4OS tested - Works great on RPI3!  A few notes.  
  Excellent potential for another RPI project (Desktop replacement)
• Kali Linux on a RPI 2.  Security/Pen Testing tool, works VERY well!
  Built a Pi based KRACK test gizmo, but tested a number of Kali tools too
  
  

• Overall on Kali:  Works great, very usable, even on RPIV2!
• Tested 2017.2 and 2017.3 releases 
• Kali is a Security (Pen testing) distro with many useful security tools
• My Project-at-hand:  A test device that can be plugged into local net to check our IoT 'things' for KRACK vulnerability.
• Initial plan - RPI 2 w/ TFT touchscreen - aborted, See StickyFingers Kali-PI below
• More @ https://github.com/vanhoefm/krackattacks-test-ap-ft.
• Simply testing Kali on RPI as I work thru this project 
  
• Random observations/notes
• Performance on RPI2 is remarkably good - testing via GUI, browser with 3-4 tabs and 2 terminal windows.  Very responsive
  
• Have used Kali (PKA Backtrack) in the past, excellent pentesting/security distro.
• Image Name = Kali Raspberry PI w/TFT:  Tried twice and failed to get it to boot - Aborted  
• Image Name = RaspberryPi 2 / 3:  retried with kali-2017.2-rpi3-nexmon.img image 
• Much better!  It Booted!  It works!  
• Default U/P=root/toor, using default config
• Singing along with https://docs.kali.org/kali-on-arm/install-kali-linux-arm-raspberry-pi:
• Remember to reset root password - passwd
• reset ssh host keys:
  
  root@kali:~ rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
root@kali:~ dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server
root@kali:~ service ssh restart
• Important:   apt-get update && apt-get upgrade 
• Goofy situation after reboots:  All windows restored (Filemanager, wireshark, term, etc), but no menu bar
• To get panel working again:
• <alt>F2 to get to application finder, then run "Panel"
  
• Settings in Menu
• Session and Startup, Session Tab -> Clear Saved Sessions
• Royal pain in the butt
• Expand Partition to fill SD @ https://whitedome.com.au/re4son/sticky-fingers-kali-pi/#fdisk
  
• Network
• WiFi worked right out of the box
• Ethernet:  I had to set up a connection (Settings->Network Connection)
• Software: 
  
• update/upgrade added quite a few kali tools
• Wireshark works!
  

StickyFingers Kali-PI 

• Overall on Kali-PI:  Aborted
• Originally attempted using pre-installed-image, failed after a couple of attempts, strange TFT display
• Decided to upgrade my Kali rather than using the image, failed again
• Objective:  "Kali Linux on Raspberry Pi 1/2/3/Zero with 3.5″ or 2.8″ Touch Screen and touch optimized interface"
  
• Project page @ https://whitedome.com.au/re4son/kali-pi/
• Install @ https://whitedome.com.au/re4son/kali-pi/#Installation
  
• Updated my Kaili to 2017.3 (apt-get update && apt-get upgrade) - took a while on RPI 2
  
• Switched to RPI 3 for this project, RPI 2 seems a little sluggish, also interested in bluetooth!
  
• Didn't get very far on RPI 2 or RPI 3.  After a number of attempts decided to take a step back and test the touchscreen using Adafriut image.  Worked fine, will revisit this one.
• Sister project, DV-PI added to my ToDo List.  "Damn Vulnerable Raspberry Pi runs on all Pi’s
  The touch friendly “driving range” for IoT penetration testing with your Kali-Pi."
• Will play more with this at a later date ... TFT display is now part of another project

Q4OS

• Overall on Retropie:  It works fine, little rough to configure, but it was fun one
• Tagline from retropie.org: "Retropie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi or PC into a retro-gaming machine"
• Holiday project - had an extra sd card laying around ...
• Not for me tho - not much of a gamer now, easier to hookup the old N64 for xmas funtime
• Tested mostly with PI Zero, seemed pretty responsive and workable.  PI 3 seemed to be working too
• Official install guide was pretty good - easy to sing-a-long
• Attempt #2 due to PI Contention:  Switched to a PI Zero, should be plenty of power for old games!
• Had to re-download, pi 0/1 image is different - Starting from scratch ....
• Came up fine ... but not what I expected - no standard interface, it's a game console (of course!).
• Need to configure a controller when first boot - I had only a keyboard
• REMEMBER how you map up/down and A/B buttons!  Used to navigate UI!
• Use "A" button to select, use "B" to go back
• My keyboard was a little confusing due to mappings and in/out of textmode config screens
• Stumbled my way to raspi-config and changed PI password & enabled SSH!
• Doing as much config/setup via SSH as possible
• Needed better controller - Keyboard is clumsy.  Started with a Wiimote, because I had one here
• If the gizmo is fun, usb controllers are pretty cheap ... alternatives I will explore
• Amazon.com search for "retropie controller" got a hit*
• We have N64 controllers too, looks like an adventure, but may be fun.  Mayflash Adapter* 
• In meantime:  ssh'ed in and started working through https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Wiimote-Controller/ 
• I set locales and keyboard to US via raspi-config - was en-GB (not sure it will matter)
• Update was special (see writeup): updated via RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh script
• Took a loong time ... appears to do raspbian apt-get update too
• Wiimote setup was breathtaking - got it to work, but struggled with button assignments
  (also very confusing if you start with keyboard controller as I did) 
• You CAN skip button assignments during wii controller setup using keyboard arrow keys
• Back to official install (almost forgot where I was!) - Transferring ROMS
• Lots of legal issues - I mistakenly thought I'd easily find freeware games to load
• Wikipedia has list of commercial games released as freeware
• Retropi Forum: Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie
• Used smb share to transfer ROM - worked great right out of the gate!
• My standard PI Tests
• Audio worked out of the box
• Usability - simply not what I had expected. I now understand default GUI - slowly growing on me!
• I ended up using ssh to configure as much as possible, lots of struggles w/ native UI.  probably would have been better if I had a real game controller
• Bluetooth itself worked fine, I fumbled because of my Wiimote controller, which DID work!
• Pretty solid/stable - one odd ssh issue - could not connect - but I may have overused ssh (seemed easier)  

Adafruit PiTFT 

• Overall: Adafruit TFT image (Jesse w/ custom kernel) came up fine, will work great for TFT development 
• My objective:  Step back to make sure my 3.5 TFT screen works due to chronic struggles w/ Kali-PI
• Random install notes
• Preliminary tests on RPI 2 - seemed to work fine, switch to RPI 3 for my testing
• SSH was enabled, making initial tweaks a bit easier
• Had to create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbdev.conf & boot to switch to HDMI screen 
• Some sort of hiccup with mouse when initially switched to  HDMI, had to touch screen to navigate
  (I THINK this was fixed via reboot)
• Networking worked right out of box, but had to manually enable wifi when I unplugged Ethernet
• TFT appears to power save! Turns off - wish I could get HDMI monitors to do that!
• Helpful hints @ https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pitft-3-dot-5-touch-screen-for-raspberry-pi/faq
• From FAQ:  Created /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbdev.conf to GUI on hdmi (used to use FRAMEBUFFER)
• DON'T 'apt-get upgrade' or 'rpi-update' - it will blow away custom kenel
• Will be using this one for Touch Screen development, will try to note additional observations as I go