Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi foundation has new builds of the software images for the Raspberry Pi available. There are new versions Raspbian, Debian and Arch Linux to pick from. The nice thing about the Pi is you can switch between different builds by just swapping out the SD cards.

Raspbian is the most popular build of the Pi and that has some interesting changes (take from the Raspberry Pi blog):

  • Updated Scratch image (significant performance improvements).
  • Updated armv6-optimised Pixman library.
  • Updated armv6-optimised memxxx() functions.
  • Updated raspi-config with new layout, and new functionality (setting hostname and enabling camera support).
  • Native mmap support in the bcm2835 ALSA driver, and numerous other firmware changes; see commits to github.com/raspberrypi/firmware.
  • The boot partition now has the label “boot”.
  • The Wayland/Weston preview from Collabra is installed and their apt repository is included as an apt source.

You can download the images and create new installations or you can use sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade to update your current system.

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