[Bassetlug mailing] Debian Wheezy

Danny Roberts dannyroberts.personal at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 22 15:29:59 UTC 2012


I haven't been following the development at all or anything for that matter
over the past week so I'm still catching up. I too will be overwriting my
Debian image with this one soon. Will let you all know how it goes.

On 19 June 2012 14:14, MJ.Wells <mj.wells at ischus.plus.com> wrote:

> I have been actively following the bootloader/firmware development, in
> order to support writing our own kernel, and it is leaping forward at a
> fair pace.
>
> As a result I have stumbled on:
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/**archives/1435<http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1435>
>
> There are some important additions to this image:
>  * inclusion of a tool to make it easy to resize the filesystem to
>    use  the full SD card. raspi-config runs at first boot (and if
>    you ssh in you are reminded you probably want to run it)
>  * sshd is enabled by default, and you can disable it with
>      `sudo update-rc.d ssh disable`.
>  * future firmware updates will be delivered via apt-get upgrade.
>
> I haven't tried it yet, it is downloading now, but I don't expect any
> problems, however note that it is a beta so I will not be overwriting my
> working Debian image.
>
> Others say that:
> SD card read speeds are up now
> it’s happy with more cards than the old version
>
>
> Martin
>
>
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Danny R

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