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Debian Derivative Optimized for the Raspbery Pi Released

Posted by Unknown on from the officially-want-one dept.

sfcrazy writes "The Raspberry Pi foundation has announced the release of the first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. The image will make it easier for Raspberry Pi users to switch from 'generic' Debian Squeeze to this 'optimized' image." The new image is based on Wheezy and optimized for ARM with floating point instructions, and supersedes the Squeeze based soft float image. Benchmarks show much improvement in performance, and the updated software in Wheezy generally improves the usability of the Raspberry Pi.

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  1. Re:In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless you just want a phone that works and costs $35. Not everyone has unlimited money to buy phones that have processing power that mostly exists for bragging rights.

  2. Re:The Raspberry PI is currently underpowered by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This leads one to the question... underpowered for what exactly?

    Buy the right hardware for your project. If this doesn't fit then don't buy it. Buy the ODroid-X, which is a quad core 1.4 Ghz if that is better.

    PI is giving me a platform to cheaply learn some stuff, so it fits my needs fine.