The uses of Raspberry Pi are many and more and more. Surely because of the name of the title, many of you will think that we are facing a new operating system for Raspberry Pi, but the truth is that we are facing a new function rather than an operating system.
Raspberry Slideshow is a fork of Raspbian that transforms your Raspberry Pi into a powerful machine for displaying presentations and images of any kind. It's similar to what Kodi currently does in the multimedia world.
Raspberry Slideshow not only publishes images and full-screen presentations but also includes a series of scripts that enable communication with any type of server . This means that if you have a Raspberry Pi 3, you can connect to any server and extract or use the images and videos from it. All of this is done without needing any cables other than the power cable for the Raspberry Pi and the monitor or screen.
Raspberry Slideshow is based on Debian Stretch , so we can say that Raspberry Slideshow is essentially an optimized or modified Raspbian for this specific function.
The Raspberry Pi is a mini PC that is becoming increasingly common in the business sector. This is due to utilities such as Raspberry Slideshow.
To turn your Raspberry Pi into a Raspberry Slideshow, simply download the operating system ISO image and then write it to a microSD card as you would any other image . Next, power on the device and follow the operating system's tutorials, which will include setting up a connection to another server to extract images or other multimedia content.
Personally, I find it interesting, not only for companies but also for users who need to create an exhibition and can create it with a handful of Raspberry Pis and this software without being a computer expert, don't you think?