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from the something-to-try-while-digesting-your-turkey dept.
In a rather curious turn, the Raspberry Pi foundation has released an x86 PC port of its PIXEL+Debian Linux desktop environment.
PIXEL (which is a clunky backronym for Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight) is an extensively modified version of the LXDE X11 desktop environment. It was originally released in September for use with Raspberry Pi single-board computers, but now it has also been packaged up for x86 PCs. You can boot your Windows or Mac PC into the PIXEL desktop environment right now, if you so wish.
In the words of Eben Upton, founder of the foundation, PIXEL is "our best guess as to what the majority of users are looking for in a desktop environment [...] Put simply, it's the GNU/Linux we would want to use." To that end, PIXEL is both clean and modern-looking, but more importantly it is useful, with a wide range of productivity software and programming tools pre-installed. PIXEL doesn't eschew proprietary software, either; it even comes with the Adobe Flash browser plug-in.
Can any PIXEL users comment?
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Sunday December 25 2016, @06:19AM
According to the summary this is supposed to be a port for the x86 desktop though. The download is 1.3 Gb, just a bit less than the latest Mint release at 1.7Gb and it doesn't have an installer. Great for the RPi but not so much for the desktop. I want to try it because I enjoy that kind of stuff but I'll wait until it has an installer for desktop/laptop.
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(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday December 25 2016, @07:27AM
Yes, quite aware of what this story was about. I was responding to Runaway's lament about the install, which is about the same for the RasPi. Its DD or nothing, but that's not that hard.
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