The free Raspberry Pi OS – formerly known as Raspbian – for mini PCs and single-board computers such as the Raspberry Pi 4 is based on Debian GNU/Linux and now uses the current Debian 11 (“Bullseye”) for the first time. With the change to the new foundation, all applications were also based on the GUI toolkit GTK3 rearranged.
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Debian 11 arrives at Pi
With the current version, in addition to the Linux 5.10 LTS operating system kernel with support until December 2022, Debian 11 (“Bullseye”) will also find its way to Raspberry Pi OS for the first time. In the keyboard shell, instead, the mature Linux 4.19 kernel is still available.
Raspberry Pi OS with PIXEL desktop based on LXDE (Photo: Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Free desktop environment desktop is used LXDE For Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms such as Linux and BSD derived from PIXEL Desktop from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In addition, support for the free GTK GUI toolkit, formerly known as GTK+, and encryption technology has been improved. OpenSSL Accelerated under ARM64. In addition, some system icons have been slightly modified.
Raspberry Pi OS – Highlights
GTK3 Full
files manager
KMS Video Driver
New camera driver
Native Windows Manager
Notification Center
Plugin Update
Linux 5.10.63
book shelf
Debian 11
For the first time ever, a free window manager is also available Mother, which is deeply integrated into the desktop shell and can be compared to KWin As the author of the display server protocol Wayland Functions used in Raspberry Pi OS.
On the software side, there is the Chromium 92 browser, the free office suite LibreOffice, VLC Media Player 3.0.16 “Out of the Box” and more than 35,000 software packages can be downloaded from Debian 11 (“Bullseye”) sources.
The latest version of the Raspberry Pi OS also updates the firmware of all popular models in the Raspberry Pi series. More details are provided Official Announcement.
