Within less than a week, a new image for Raspberry Pi Debian has been released as well as an Arch Linux image.
Debian 6 can be downloaded via:
- BitTorrent – debian6-19-04-2012.zip.torrent
- Direct HTTP download – debian6-19-04-2012.zip
Username/Password: root/raspberrypi
Arch Linux can be downloaded via:
- BitTorrent – archlinuxarm-19-04-2012.zip.torrent
- Direct HTTP download – archlinuxarm-19-04-2012.zip
Username/Password: root/root
The following Changelog is provided for Debian 6 release:
- Overscan adjustments
- ALSA driver
- Re-enable 1600×1200 output (regression in 13-04-2012 release)
- Boot file tidyup – and remove test cmdline file
- vcgencmd provides a version number
- Fixes for EDID parsing
- Drive DMT modes in DVI modes by default, even if HDMI is reported as supported
- Some initial packages that might make setting up Wi-Fi possible
- Includes the non-free software source (nothing from it though) – useful for Wi-Fi firmware
- Qt5 snapshot
- A small package that will allow Raspberry Pi to be used as for Qt5 development out of the box
- Raspberry Pi wallpaper on white background
- LXDE theme for user “pi” is now “mist” (performance improvement)
- A new Python IDE “spe” and related tools
- winpdb – python debugger
- wxglade – python dialogue designer
- python-pygame
- The “scratch” educational programming tool and required squeak-vm
- lxtask – runs a task manager when CTRL-ALT-DEL pressed in LXDE
- Release identification in /etc/issue-rpi and /boot/issue.txt
- ssh disabled by default – boot commands taken from /boot/boot.rc if present – candidate to enable ssh included
- Timezone set to Europe/London
- Tidied hidden files
- Package cache is clean
The audio driver (ALSA) is apparently not that stable, so it is disabled by default. You can load the module with the following command:
modprobe snd_bcm2835
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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