The distribution now officially supports Raspberry Pi

Aug 27, 2012 10:40 GMT  ·  By

Semplice Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's Sid unstable branch with the goal to provide a simple, lightweight, fast and cool environment, has made it to version 3.0 Beta 1.

Semplice Linux 3.0 Beta 1 has a lot of changes in comparison with the previous version and most of them are quite important.

Highlights of Semplice Linux 3.0 Beta 1:

· Raspberry Pi is now supported; · uGet has been added and it's used by default; · lxtask, a task manager, has been added; · cairo-compmgr has been removed because it is no longer supported; · Core boot files are now cached.

A complete list of changes can be found in the official announcement.

Download Semplice Linux 3.0 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.