Raspberry Pi 4

As soon as I heard the news about the Pi 4 release, I jumped on it. As a
frequent Pi user for day to day tasks, I'm always keen for a speed boost.

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One major thing interests me about the Pi 4. The 4Gb of RAM model means that it
could be viable for running Gentoo. While Gentoo does _run_ fine on previous
models of the Pi, it hit's issues when updating. 

Updating on Gentoo requires compiling from source and many software these days
need quite a bit of RAM to compile quickly (using all 4 cores).

I didn't have the money to buy the 4Gb version right away, so I opted for the
1Gb model.

This morning I completed the upgrade to Buster and aside from an issue with
[noobs](https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=212452) the upgrade
was smooth.

This blog post is the first composed and hosted on My Pi 4!

Tags: raspberry-pi