Meet the Raspberry Pi Zero: A new $5 mini Linux computer | Linux Today

Meet the Raspberry Pi Zero: A new $5 mini Linux computer

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Ben Nuttall
Nov 26, 2015

The board is the smallest Raspberry Pi yet, containing the first-gen Raspberry Pi’s BCM2835 chip (safely overclocked to 1GHz) and 512MB RAM. Copies of the latest issue of The Magpi, which hits U.K. newsstands Thursday, will include a free Raspberry Pi Zero.

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