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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. Nix stores all packages in isolation from each other; as a result there are no /bin, /sbin, /lib or /usr directories and all packages are kept in /nix/store instead. Other innovative features of NixOS include reliable upgrades, rollbacks, reproducible system configurations, source-based model with binaries, and multi-user package management. Although NixOS started as a research project, it is now a functional and usable operating system that includes hardware detection, KDE as the default desktop, and systemd for managing system services.
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| 2016-12-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Raspbian 2016-11-25 |
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Simon Long has announced the release of Raspbian 2016-11-25, a security update of the Debian-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers: "The more observant among you may have spotted that we've recently updated the Raspbian-with-PIXEL image. With any major release of the OS, we usually find a few small bugs and other issues as soon as the wider community starts using it, and so we gather up the fixes and produce a 1.1 release a few weeks later. We don't make a fuss about these bug fix releases, as there's no new functionality; these are just fixes to make things work as originally intended. However, in this case, we've made a couple of important changes. They won't be noticed by many users, but to those who do notice them and who will be affected by them, we should explain ourselves! What has changed? First, from now on SSH will be disabled by default on our images." Here is the full release announcement with an explanation of the changes made in this release. Download: 2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie.zip (1,469MB, SHA1, torrent, pkglist). |
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| Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is a free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and optimised for the Raspberry Pi hardware (the armhf processor architecture). Raspberry Pi OS comes with over 35,000 packages, or pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on a Raspberry Pi. The initial build was completed in June of 2012, but the distribution continues to be active developed with an emphasis on improving the stability and performance of as many Debian packages as possible. Although Debian produces a distribution for the arm architecture, it is compatible only with versions later than the one used on the Raspberry Pi (ARMv7-A CPUs and higher vs the Raspberry Pi's ARMv6 CPU).
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| 2023-10-11 |
Distribution Release: Raspberry Pi OS 2023-10-10 |
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Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) is a free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and optimised for the Raspberry Pi hardware. The project's latest release is based on Debian 12 "Bookworm" and makes a move to switch the graphical interface from X11 to a Wayland session. "For Bookworm, we are using a compositor called Wayfire. This uses a standard Wayland library called wlroots, which is used by several modern Wayland compositors. And because Wayfire works a lot better as a Wayland compositor on Raspberry Pi than Mutter did, Wayland is now the default mode of operation for the desktop. (With one caveat - for now, Wayland is only the default on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. The performance of Wayfire on earlier platforms is still being optimised, so for now they will continue to run the old X11 display server and the Openbox window manager, but at some point these platforms will also be switched to Wayfire.) If you boot Raspberry Pi OS on a Pi 4 or 5, you will now get a Wayfire desktop." Additional information is provided in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): 2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64.img.xz (1,093MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), 2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64-full.img.xz" (2,725MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), 2023-10-10-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz" (435MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2022-04-08 |
Distribution Release: Raspberry Pi OS 2022-04-04 |
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Simon Long has announced an availability of the latest stable release of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based distribution for Raspberry Pi range of low-cost mini-computers. The latest version, labelled as 2022-04-04, removes the default "pi" user from the system and makes the "setup wizard" compulsory: "Up until now, all installs of Raspberry Pi OS have had a default user called 'pi'. This isn't that much of a weakness – just knowing a valid user name doesn't really help much if someone wants to hack into your system; they would also need to know your password, and you'd need to have enabled some form of remote access in the first place. But nonetheless, it could potentially make a brute-force attack slightly easier, and in response to this, some countries are now introducing legislation to forbid any Internet-connected device from having default login credentials. So with this latest release, the default 'pi' user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image." Here is the full release announcement. The Raspberry Pi OS IMG files are available for both armhf and arm64 architectures in standard, "full" and "lite" flavours. Here are the quick links to download the standard editions: 2022-04-04-raspios-bullseye-arm64.img.xz (757MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist); 2022-04-04-raspios-bullseye-armhf.img.xz (837MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-11-08 |
Distribution Release: Raspberry Pi OS 2021-10-30 |
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Raspberry Pi OS is a Debian-based distribution custom built for Raspberry Pi computers. The development team have published a new version of Raspberry Pi OS which carries the code name "Bullseye". The new version is based on Debian 11 and upgrades a number of desktop components. "All of the desktop components and applications are now using version 3 of the GTK+ user interface toolkit. GTK+ is a layer of software that applications can use to draw standard user interface components (known as 'widgets') such as buttons, menus and the like, so that all applications have a consistent look and feel. Up until now, most of the desktop has used version 2 of the GTK+ toolkit, but increasing numbers of Debian applications are using GTK+3, so to try and keep things consistent, we've upgraded all our software and the desktop itself to the newer version. GTK+3 has been around for several years now, and people have occasionally asked why we didn't move to it before now. The simple answer is that many things are much easier to do with GTK+2 than with GTK+3, particularly when it comes to customising the appearance of widgets - GTK+3 has removed several useful features which we relied upon. It has ended up being necessary to find work-arounds to a lot of these - hopefully no one will notice them and everything will still work as before!" Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: 2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf-full.zip (3,045MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2020-12-04 |
Distribution Release: Raspberry Pi OS 2020-12-02 |
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Simon Long has announced the availability of a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based distribution for Raspberry Pi computers. The latest version includes an updated Chromium web browser, a graphical front-end for configuring printers, and the PulseAudio audio control software. "We've updated the Chromium browser to version 84. This has taken us a bit longer than we would have liked, but it's always quite a lot of work to get our video hardware acceleration integrated with new releases of the browser. That's done now, so you should see good-quality video playback on sites like YouTube. We've also, given events this year, done a lot of testing and tweaking on video conferencing clients such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom, and they should all now work smoothly on your Raspberry Pi's Chromium. From this release onwards, we are switching Raspberry Pi OS to use the PulseAudio sound server." The release announcement has additional information. Download (SHA256): 2020-12-02-raspios-buster-armhf-full.zip (2,948MB, torrent, pkglist), 2020-12-02-raspios-buster-armhf-lite.zip (438MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2020-02-07 |
Distribution Release: Raspbian 2020-02-05 |
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Simon Long has announced the release of Raspbian 2020-02-05, an updated build of the specialist, Debian-based distribution designed for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The latest release delivers a number of interesting changes, including some modifications to the PCmanFM file manager: "We previously made some significant changes to the PCmanFM file manager included as part of the Raspberry Pi Desktop; we added a cutdown mode which excludes a lot of the less commonly used functionalities, and we set this as the default mode. One of the things we removed for this mode is the Places view, an optional view for the left-hand pane of the window which provides direct access to a few specific locations in the file system. We felt that the directory browser was more useful, so we chose to show that instead. But one useful feature of Places is that it displays external devices, such as USB drives, and these are somewhat awkward to find in the file manager otherwise." Read the detailed release announcement for further information. Download: 2020-02-05-raspbian-buster.zip (1,137MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 2020-02-05-raspbian-buster-lite.zip (433MB, signature, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2019-06-24 |
Distribution Release: Raspbian 2019-06-20 |
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Eben Upton has announced the release of a major new version of Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The updated build, version 2019-06-20, is the first image based on the upcoming release of Debian 10 "Buster". Information about the new Raspbian was provided as part of today's blog post announcing the brand-new Raspberry Pi 4: "To support Raspberry Pi 4, we are shipping a radically overhauled operating system, based on the forthcoming Debian 10 'Buster' release. This brings numerous behind-the-scenes technical improvements, along with an extensively modernised user interface, and updated applications including the Chromium 74 web browser. ... Some advice for those who are keen to get going with Raspbian Buster right away: we strongly recommend you download a new image, rather than upgrading an existing card. This ensures that you’re starting with a clean, working Buster system. If you really, really want to try upgrading, make a backup first." As usual, Raspbian is available in both "standard" and "lite" editions; here are the download links: 2019-06-20-raspbian-buster.zip (1,096MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.zip (406MB, signature, SHA256, torrent).
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| 2018-11-16 |
Distribution Release: Raspbian 2018-11-13 |
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Simon Long has announced the availability of a new release of Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. One major change in this release is the addition of the VLC media player: "When I first joined Raspberry Pi, back in the dim and distant past (in reality 2014, but it does seem a long time ago now) and I started looking at Raspbian, I made a list of the additional features and applications that I thought it needed to be a 'complete' modern desktop operating system. Over the years, we've managed to tick off most of the items on that list, but one glaring omission has been nagging at me all this time: a decent media player. Windows has Windows Media Player, MacOS has QuickTime Player and iTunes, but we've had a big hole where something similar ought to be for Raspbian. It has been a common request on the forums and while we've had bits and pieces that do some of the job, we really wanted a nice GUI-based media player." See the release announcement for more details and screenshots. Download links: 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.zip (1,035MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip (351MB, signature, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2018-06-29 |
Distribution Release: Raspbian 2018-06-27 |
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Simon Long has announced the availability of a new build of Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The 2018-06-27 version brings a brand-new setup wizard, a Recommended Software utility and a much improved PDF viewer called qpdfView: "It's time to release another update to the Raspberry Pi desktop with a few new bits and a bunch of bug fixes (hopefully more fixes than new bugs, anyway). So, what's changed this time around? One of the things about Raspbian that has always been a bit unhelpful is that when a new user first boots up a new Pi, they see a nice desktop picture, but they might not have much of an idea what they ought to do next. With the new update, whenever a new Raspbian image is booted for the first time, a simple setup wizard runs automatically to walk you through the basic setup operations." Read the full release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download either the standard build or the "lite" edition: 2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.zip (1,667MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip (350MB, signature, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2018-03-15 |
Distribution Release: Raspbian 2018-03-13 |
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Simon Long has announced the release of an updated build of Raspbian, a Debian-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers. This new version improves compatibility with large monitors and provides a way to set a default screen option depending on the size of the monitor: "You may have noticed that we released a updated Raspbian software image yesterday. While the main reason for the new image was to provide support for the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, the image also includes, alongside the usual set of bug fixes and minor tweaks, one significant chunk of new functionality that is worth pointing out. ... The Appearance Settings application was a good place to start regarding support of different screen sizes. One of the features I originally included was a button to set everything to a default value. Now, there is no longer a single defaults button, but a new Defaults tab with multiple options." Read the full release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download either the standard build or the "lite" edition: 2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch.zip (1,694MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist), 2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch-lite.zip (349MB, signature, SHA256, torrent). |
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