First Raspberry Pi Desktop Release Based on Debian Stretch Is Out for PCs and Macs

Posted by hanuca on Dec 1, 2017 2:42 PM EDT
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Raspberry Pi Foundation's Simon Long announced today the general availability of the Debian Stretch release of their Raspberry Pi Desktop operating for PCs and Macs.

The company kicked off the month of December with a big announcement today, announcing that they've managed to rebase the Raspberry Pi Desktop OS for PCs and Macs on the latest stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" operating system, as well as to release a new version of the Raspbian Stretch distro for Raspberry Pi.

It's been almost a year since Raspberry Pi Desktop was announced for PCs and Macs, but it didn't receive a major update since then, but looking how popular it became during this time, the Raspberry Pi Foundation decided to assign a full-time team of engineers to work on operating system and port the core components to Debian Stretch.

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