Twister OS
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Twister OS (Twister for short) is a 32-bit Operating System created by Pi Labs for the Raspberry Pi single board computer originally, with a x86_64 PC version released a few months later.[1][2] Twister is meant to be a general-purpose OS that is familiar or nostalgic to users. Twister is based on Raspberry Pi OS Lite and uses the XFCE desktop environment.[3] Twister OS also has a version called "Twister OS Armbian" designed for ARM SBCs with the RK3399 CPU.[1] There are four versions of the operating system, TwisterOS Full (for the Raspberry Pi 4), Twister OS Lite (a stripped-down version with only themes), Twister UI (For x86_64 PCs running Linux Mint or Xubuntu) and Twisters OS Armbian (for RK3399 CPUs) .[1]
Features
[edit]TwisterOS has 7 main desktop themes, 5 out of those have dark modes.[4] Twister OS has its own theme called "Twister OS theme". The Twister 95, XP, 7, 10, and 11 themes are similar to the themes on the Windows 95, XP, 7, 10 and 11 operating systems. iTwister and iTwister Sur desktop themes are similar to the themes on macOS.[3]
Box86 is an emulator used to run x86 software and games on ARM systems.[5][6]
Wine is a compatibility layer that lets the user to run Windows applications on non-Windows systems.[1][3]
CommanderPi is a system monitoring and configuration tool designed to check system information and overclock the CPU.[7]
Other Twister versions
[edit]Twister OS Lite
[edit]Twister OS Lite is for the Raspberry Pi as well. The Lite version only comes with the themes in Twister OS, as well as Box86 and Wine.[1]
Twister UI
[edit]Twister UI is very similar to Twister OS, the only difference is that Twister UI is used for non-single board computers.[1][8] Twister UI is designed to be installed by running a setup script on an already running installation of Linux Mint (XFCE) or Xubuntu.[1][8]
Twister OS Armbian
[edit]Twister OS Armbian is a version of Twister OS that can run on SBCs with RK3399 CPUs, like the Rock Pi 4B.[9] Twister OS Armbian also comes preinstalled on emmc chips inside the Rock Pi 4 Plus models.[10] Twister OS Armbian is based on the Armbian Linux operating system.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Twister OS". twisteros.com. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ Raspberry Pi Twister OS: Windows Themes & Apps on a Pi!
- ^ a b c Fromaget, Patrick (7 November 2020). "Looking for the Best Raspberry Pi System? Try Twister OS". Raspberry tips. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ TwisterOS 2.0 Raspberry Pi 4. My favourite OS on the Pi., retrieved 2021-05-03Windows 11 Theme on the Raspberry Pi! Twister OS 2.1.0 Review
- ^ "Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ Schaaf, Tobias. "Linux Gaming: Box86- A New x86 Emulator for ODROIDs". ODROID Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ "Commander Pi | Single-Board Computers". Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ a b Twister UI. How to install on your Laptop or PC. Linux XFCE 20.10., retrieved 2021-05-03
- ^ How to install en set up Armbian Reforged on your RK3399 / Twister OS, retrieved 2021-05-03
- ^ "Rock Pi SBCs move to 2GHz RK3399 and toss in free eMMC". LinuxGizmos.com. 2021-05-22. Retrieved 2021-07-19.