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Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Ships With Open-Source OpenGL Support (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: With this month's Raspbian OS update, the Debian-based operating system for the Raspberry Pi ships experimental OpenGL driver support. This driver has been developed over the past two years by a former Intel developer with having a completely open and mainline DRM kernel driver and Mesa Gallium driver to open up the Pi as a replacement to the proprietary GPU driver.
Does this Raspbian OS use systemd?
I was a Debian user for many, many years, up until Debian forced systemd on me. One day I updated my workstation, and systemd was installed. I proceeded to reboot, and for the first time in many years my Debian system did not boot properly, all thanks to some problem with systemd. This was a Debian installation I'd updated every week for years without any major problems at all, and the first thing systemd did once installed was fuck up.
I thought that maybe it was going to be a very rare case. After all, I'd had many years of success using Debian with next to no problems. But then I encountered similar problems with systemd after subsequent updates, not only on my main workstation, but in VMs and on other systems, too.
I'm not one to waste my time with shitty software. That's why I used Debian in the first place: it was damn good. So I've ditched Debian, and now I use FreeBSD. In fact, I wish I had ditched Debian sooner. FreeBSD provides a traditional Debian-like experience, but the quality is much higher, and the community is top-notch.
If Raspbian OS uses systemd, I could never consider using it. I don't care if it's not even a very powerful computer to begin with. I will never use systemd again.
The blob still rules the roost. The blob is what fires up the GPU, which then in turn launches the ARM support CPU(s) in the SoC.