Raspberry Pi Desktop, the Long-Abandoned Linux Distro for Non-Raspberry Pi Hardware, May Return Soon
Raspberry Pi's Simon Long has teased a possible reboot of the Raspberry Pi Desktop project, which brought the Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution to x86-based hardware including laptops, desktops, and even rival single-board computers — more than four years after the company's last release.
"Back in the summer [of 2016], we asked ourselves one simple question: if we like [Raspberry Pi OS desktop environment] PIXEL so much, why ask people to buy Raspberry Pi hardware in order to run it? There is a massive installed base of PC and Mac hardware out there, which can run x86 Debian just fine," Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton wrote back in December 2016, at the launch of what was known at the time as Debian+PIXEL. "We don’t just want to create the best desktop environment for the Raspberry Pi: we want to create the best desktop environment, period."
Raspberry Pi Desktop, which puts Raspberry...
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