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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 24 2016, @11:35PM   Printer-friendly
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?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Sunday December 25 2016, @09:21AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Sunday December 25 2016, @09:21AM (#445762) Journal

    My guess is they released an X86 version because of those Atom SoC HDMI PCs are uber cheap so I wouldn't be surprised if they release an RPi that is built around one of those. Can't say I blame 'em, the figures I've seen have those Atom quads being a good clip faster than an equivalent ARM chip and with completed units going for as low as $70 USD with 2GB of RAM and 32Gb of storage? the BoM price must be insanely low.

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