The New Raspbian Distro for Raspberry Pi

The Raspbian Organisation released Raspbian 2013-09-25, a Debian-based distribution designed for the Raspberry Pi single-board mini-computer which is the latest release of thier with lots of improvements.

Highlights of new features include:

-Sonic Pi is preinstalled so you can jump right in to learning to program while creating your own music.

-Significant performance improvements to Scratch.

-A build of PyPy 2.1 is now included to allow you to try out this high performance Python JIT compiler.

-Python libraries required for interfacing with Pi-Face are preinstalled. Once you enable the SPI kernel module in raspi-config you can leap right in.

-The Oracle JDK is preinstalled.

-Due to the addition of Java, the standalone SD card image now requires at least a 4GB SD card beacuse the image itself sized at 3GB.

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