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The Raspberry Pi is awesome. Less than £30 nabs you a pocket computer to do your worst with, but it’s not quite lightning quick, at least when trying to browse the web. That’s about to change though, as its default recommended OS has gotten a massive kick in the pants for more speed.
Basically, the Foundation has been working hard to optimise its Debian linux distro ”Raspbian” for the Pi, and this is the result. Much faster web browsing is top of the change list, with it now taking full advantage of the built-in floating-point hardware on the naked board. It’s also got tweaks and optimisations all over the place in firmware, the kernel, and the bundled applications, which is great news for anyone using the Raspberry Pi as more of a traditional computer.
Jump on over to the Foundation’s download page to grab it now and upgrade your mini-marvel’s speed. [Raspberry Pi]
Thanks Darrell!
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Just flashed this to my Pi’s SD card – in fact writing this comment on my Pi now – certainly seems to be zippier, and the raspi-config setup menu is improved, including a boot-to-desktop option. Sweet!
It’s not quick browsing the web?! That’s hardly a massively computer intensive activity. I thought this thing could output video @ 1080p?
Any facts about performance from Pi ownwers would be great. Seems nearly impossible to find anything conclusive on the Internet.