The developers of the Raspberry Pi project have released an update to the Raspbian distribution 2020-02-05 Based on the Debian 10 "Buster" package base. This new version is presented with a series of updates to the packages that make up the system, in addition to presenting some changes.
For those unfamiliar with Raspbian, you should know that this is a free Debian based operating system, who is optimized for the Raspberry Pi (armhf processor architecture). Raspbian comes with more than 35,000 software packages or precompiled software, which is packaged in a format for easy installation on Raspberry Pi.
Raspbian main news 2020-02-05
In the announcement of this new version, the developers mention:
We previously made some significant changes to the PCmanFM file manager included as part of the Raspberry Pi desktop; We added a shrink mode that removes many of the less-used features, and set it as the default mode.
This new version continues with this approach since PCmanFM based file manager added, lThe "Places" section has been added to the top of the sidebar, providing quick access to frequently used mounted drives and file paths.
Also A button has been added to the toolbar to create a new directory. In the directory display mode on the side panel, the subdirectory presence indicator is set.
The visual programming learning environment of Scratch 3 has been updated to version 1.0.4, which adds the ability to download files from the command line, and the new 'display stage' and 'display sprite' blocks are added to the Sense HAT extension.
Thonny Integrated Development Environment has been updated to version 3.2.6, which can be used to teach beginners how to write Python applications. Thonny combines an easy-to-learn interface for beginners and advanced features for experienced programmers, such as step-by-step code execution and variable inspection, into one application. In the new issue, work was done to increase productivity when debugging projects.
An Orca screen reader has been added to the list of recommended apps, adapted to control PIXEL desktop and GTK and Qt based applications (with applications based on other toolkits such as Thonny, Sonic Pi and Scratch, as well as Chromium, the screen reader is not yet supported (It is recommended to use Firefox or the latest version of Chromium 80, where the issues are resolved)).
The functions for configuring external sound devices are carried over from a separate Audio Device Preferences application to the panel's sound management applet.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- A set of Code the Classics games written in Python has been added to the recommended apps list.
- In the configurator, a separate section is highlighted with the display settings, in which there are new items to control screen off and pixel doubling when scaling.
- The value of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete combination has been changed, which instead of invoking the task manager now calls the shutdown dialog (use Ctrl-Shift-Escape to invoke the task manager).
- The Mesa package has been updated to version 19.3.2 with support for OpenGL ES 3.1.
- Improved support for multiple monitor setups.
- OpenSSL enables optimizations based on NEON instructions.
Download Raspbian 2020-02-05
If you are not a user of the distribution and you want to use it on your device. You can get the system image, You only have to go to the official website of the project where you can download the image in its download section.
At the end of your download you can use Etcher to save the image to a pendrive and thus boot your system from your SDCard. OR alternatively you can support yourself with the use of NOOBS or PINN.
On the other hand, if you already have the system installed and want to update and receive the news of this new release of the system, you just have to execute the update commands in your terminal.
What you are going to execute in terminal is the following:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade