Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait
This isn't its only activity, though: as well as hardware, it also maintains its own custom Debian-based distro. Although we've covered a few alternative Pi distros over the years, we suspect that most Pi owners never try anything other than the official Pi OS. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Pi OS is Debian, but heavily cut down so that it doesn't use much memory or disk space.
- ▪This isn't its only activity, though: as well as hardware, it also maintains its own custom Debian-based distro.
- ▪Although we've covered a few alternative Pi distros over the years, we suspect that most Pi owners never try anything other than the official Pi OS.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Pi OS is Debian, but heavily cut down so that it doesn't use much memory or disk space.
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