Our vision in establishing the Raspberry Pi Foundation was that everyone should be able to afford their own programmable general-purpose computer. The intention has always been that the Raspberry Pi should be a full-featured desktop computer at a $35 price point. In support of this, and in parallel with our hardware development efforts, we’ve made substantial investments in our software stack. These culminated in the of PIXEL in September 2016.

PIXEL represents our best guess as to what the majority of users are looking for in a desktop environment: a clean, modern user interface; a curated suite of productivity software and programming tools, both free and proprietary; and the Chromium web browser with useful plugins, including Adobe Flash, preinstalled. And all of this is built on top of Debian, providing instant access to thousands of free applications. Put simply, it’s the GNU/Linux we would want to use. The PIXEL desktop on Raspberry Pi Back in the summer, we asked ourselves one simple question: if we like 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. Could we do something for the owners of those machines?

So, after three months of hard work from Simon and Serge, we have a Christmas treat for you: an experimental version of Debian+PIXEL for x86 platforms. Simply the image, burn it onto a DVD or flash it onto a USB stick, and boot straight into the familiar PIXEL desktop environment on your PC or Mac. Or go out and buy this month’s issue of magazine, in stores tomorrow, which has this rather stylish bootable DVD on the cover. The finest laptop ever made, made finer Why do we think this is worth doing? Two reasons: • A school can now run PIXEL on its existing installed base of PCs, just as a student can run PIXEL on her Raspberry Pi at home.

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She can move back and forth between her computing class or after-school club and home, using exactly the same productivity software and programming tools, in exactly the same desktop environment. There is no learning curve, and no need to tweak her schoolwork to run on two subtly different operating systems. • And bringing PIXEL to the PC and Mac keeps us honest. We don’t just want to create the best desktop environment for the Raspberry Pi: we want to create the best desktop environment, period. We know we’re not there yet, but by running PIXEL alongside Windows, Mac OS, and the established desktop GNU/Linux distros, we can more easily see where our weak points are, and work to fix them. Remember that this is a prototype rather then a final release version. Due to the wide variety of PC and Mac hardware out there, there are likely to be minor issues on some hardware configurations.

If we decide that this is something we want to commit to in the long run, we will do our best to address these as they come up. You can help us here – please let us know how you get on in the comments below!

Instructions the image, and either burn it to a DVD or write it to a USB stick. For the latter, we recommend. Spot the difference: the PIXEL desktop on a PC Please note that this initial experimental version is only available as a live image to boot from USB or DVD. In future releases, we may create an installer so it can be permanently installed on your computer’s hard drive, but for now this is can only be temporarily booted for trial purposes.

* We are aware of an issue on some modern Macs (including, annoyingly, mine – but not Liz’s), where the machine fails to identify the image as bootable. We’ll release an updated image once we’ve got to the bottom of the issue. Persistence If you are running from DVD, any files you create, or modifications you make to the system, will of course be lost when you power off the machine. If you are running from a USB stick, the system will by default use any spare space on the device to create a persistence partition, which allows files to persist between sessions. The boot menu provides options to run with or without persistence, or to erase any persistence partition that has been created, allowing you to roll back to a clean install at any time.

Boot menu Disclaimer One of the great benefits of the Raspberry Pi is that it is a low-consequence environment for messing about: if you trash your SD card you can just flash another one. This is not always true of your PC or Mac.

Sbloccare Alice Gate 2 Plus Voip Wifi Telephones. Consider backing up your system before trying this image. Raspberry Pi can accept no liability for any loss of data or damage to computer systems from using the image.

Updates 1.If you find that the taskbar does not appear when the x86 image is booted, please see for a workaround. 2.If you find the image doesn’t boot on a Mac, you can try the fix. Hi, i am sorry but i did not find another way to give a feedback to the raspberry pi and pixel community.

I am using a small notebook aspire one with intel atom initially designed for windows xp. It has three usb ports and can be booted via usb drive. So I downloaded the iso file for pixel and translated it via Rufus to a 3.7 GB usb stick. After changing the boot order of the aspire one to usb drive it started pixel without any problem. Files can be stored to an other usb stick in one of the other usb ports. The integrated wlan of the aspire one also works fine after having done the password setting. So now I would like to thank the developers very much for this great job of bringing pixel to a pc.

Because now software, e.g. Sonic pi I think will work better, because of having a better processor performance which can be relevant for the timing of music software. Most people being the less than 5% of users? That’s not most people. Windows can be customized. There’s a massive difference between customizable and needing to be broken down and or initially (re) built from scratch to get a basic experience with some different flavorings.

The latter is Linux. Average users don’t care about window managers, desktop environments, multiple runtimes, all the granularity of Linux as a GUI. To average users, customizable means changing a color scheme or wallpaper, not which and how to install and configure your entire desktop environment. This seems like a huge exercise in hubris and a waste of resources that arguably should be spent on the substantial platform update needed to build an Rpi4 / fix the fundamental issue0 limiting the Pi3 since its inception: the USB Ethernet shared bus. That said, you guys make some out there decisions but that includes the creation of the Pi in the first place. So I guess you’re entitled to a few mistakes/ some hubris if the upside is creation of the Pi originally.

“This seems like a huge exercise in hubris and a waste of resources that arguably should be spent on the substantial platform update needed to build an Rpi4 / fix the fundamental issue0 limiting the Pi3 since its inception: the USB Ethernet shared bus.” I think you’re entirely missing the point. The Pi Pixel environment on a version of Debian that extends across a huge range of x86 computers is incredibly useful and allows older PCs that don’t run current Windows operating systems (or even newer Linux distros) to function AT LEAST AS WELL as a Pi3 for web browsing, emails and so on. You can even use it to develop Python scripts. It also means that anyone familiar with the Pixel environment on their Raspberry Pi’s can enjoy the same experience on a PC.

Hardware platform developments are a completely different kettle of fish, your routine beef about the USB/Ethernet issue is tedious. It depends As Eben mentions above, there is an issue with some Mac hardware which fails to see the image as bootable. For reference, it boots fine on my 2014 MacBook Pro, and also on my 2013 MacBook Air. However, it doesn’t boot on a 2015 MacBook Air, nor on a 2011 Mac mini.

We think this is due to some glitch in the EFI code which provides the low-level boot on Macs; we’re pretty sure it is fixable (as other Debian images boot on all those devices), but haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet. Best thing is to download the ISO and try it! How to: Install to HDD (as the only OS) Assumptions: – The USB Stick you boot from is /dev/sdb – The internal HDD is /dev/sda Commands are given in double quotation marks. Boot it from USB/DVD 2.

Transfer the entire stick to your drive: 2.1. “sudo bash” 2.2. “dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=1M” 3. Reboot without the stick, should boot from internal HDD_ 3.1 “reboot” 4.

Resize the Partition: 4.1. “sudo bash” 4.2. “fdisk /dev/sda” 4.3. Print partitions with “p” 4.4. Write down the beginning of partition 2 4.5. Delete partition 2 with “d”, then “2” 4.6.

Create a new parition with “n”, primary partition, starting at the location from 4.4 4.7. Write with “w” 5.

Resize the filesystem on /dev/sda2 to fill the disk: 6.1. “sudo bash” 6.2. “resize2fs /dev/sda2” •. I’ve got this running just great in a VMware environment. However, we need real proper working instructions on how WITH THIS BUILD to properly put it into a virtual disk and then, using the current menu, adjust it with it’s mount persistence stuff to properly run from a HDD instead of USB/DVD. It’s running, but via mounted squashfs persistence carryover from the USB. The above dd commands would be proper if not for this dist build, it’s boot command lines that already hard-map/mount to SDA1 and SDA2 and interfere with those instructions, etc.

So, I’m just not enough of a Linux guru someone jump in with what works so that after all the partition stuff, you can run MOUNT and see one large partition that isn’t just a mapped SQUASHFS to a flat file for persistence and then I’ll add it and write up instructions start to finish for proper virtualization of it with all drivers etc. Yep, but you guys apparently don’t care that it is NOT really writing to a REAL sda2 partition and apparently through all these comments simply execute a MOUNT command before the “it’s easy” commentsdo it and paste it here – it’s mounting sda2 via it’s USB flashdrive based boot to SQUASHFS flat file and NOT truly to a EXT3 or EXT4 formatted partition – the way it be to simply have this thing boot off a HDD. Those of you commenting that you ran a CP clearly do not understand that you are still copying over several LIVECD build aspects that are still running via your HD that make it run as a LIVECD and not a real HDD install. Thanks for replying Simon! Is there any reason you guys couldn’t just give us a couple quick pointers on how to make the adjustments now? I ask because it’s really only a couple changes I would think. I agree a full Debian dist with Pixel, etc.

This excellent.:) My subscription to MagPi must have run out as not seen my usual copy in the postbox. Better sort / check that now. I’m using Linux Mint 18 simply because it was the closest to Pixel I could get. Have been wanting this for a long time. A single consistent platform based on Linux. Was once Ubuntu but then they went all crazy with the desktop. Having said that, my desktop PC is a bit of a monster, maybe I can put together a 64bit build???

I’ve had done it once before for a different distro but it is a lot of work. I have failed more times than succeeded. Thanks for the feedback Simon. Yes, it would make a lot of sense to wait for you guys to make it happen.:) There is a chain of trust and downloading an x64 from the foundation is always going to feel better than from some monkey like me who spend months on doing it and may not update it.:) But I may reacquaint myself with the Linux build games over the xmas break. I doubt I’ll get very far but will give me something to do.

My updated weather project is almost done. Hope you and the team have a good xmas. Simon and Eben, Very well done indeed guys. This kind of thing is a great boost and will help the Raspberry Pi usage. I look forward to a x64bit version to run on my myriad of older PCS. I am so tired of PC’s running bad Windows software that only gets more and more instrusive, constantly changing look and feel with very little new functionality so that usoft can keep selling software.

Funny thing is that to get the (~8 years old) wireless D-link dongle to work under Windows 7, had to install a broken driver that gives 2 errors on boot. Your very nice version of Raspian x86 just runs that Dlink hardware without having to install anything from Dlink. A couple of comments. I have only had the software installed for a couple of hours on Dec. 25 (a very nice Christmas present indeed!). I can not find the files on my Hard drive from the file manager. This would be a very useful way to transfer a lot of files from my PC to my RPI3.

Is there some simple command to let me access those files. You guys are really boosting the Chromium browser, fine, but not everyone is enamored by Google. How about boosting the Firefox-ESR with the flash player also? I found the Firefox-ESR to work almost as fast as Chromium on the Rpi, and there are those of us who prefer it. Would you guys please get someone to put an updated version of the Arduino IDE for the Rpi in the repository? The one in the repository (1.0.5, the 2: before is just fluff) is ancient and does not run some of the timing functions accurately, which a later version on the PC does (same code on both with ultrasonic ranger).

Thanks and Merry Christmas! Having this available for x86 is a big bonus. It will allow those that want the familiar PIXEL desktop on a PC and provide easy access to all the programming languages.

Installed on a USB drive will avoid that concern of damaging the config of the family laptop. Of course something similar was available before in terms of Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, but I can see the advantage of having something with the same look and feel as used on the Raspberry Pi.

I also expect this will help introduce more to the advantages of Linux. Trust me, that’s not me complaining yet;-) It’s amazing how the MacOS X UI from 2001 even looks more modern than PIXEL’s, now that you mention it;-P But please, don’t take a simple comment like that so serious. If the UI works for your intended audience and they are happy with it then you’ve reached your goal. That’s all that matters.

I was merely surprised that a look, feel and concept that is existing for a long time already now was labelled as being modern. In the end, there’s no need for it to be modern. Hi Simon, I would like to fully support your statements, policy and direction of development. Many people find creating improvements in established software too difficult and prefer to go for a “new” version and suffer the consequent years of testing to attain the stability of the previous version. Not that I am pointing fingers, in any way, at Microsoft. This is an excellent “winter festival” present for me and more importantly a tremendous present for the worlds linux community.

Hopefully the existing 11M RasPi users will help to leverage the PIXEL UI into general use. I would certainly welcome a 64 bit x86 installable version but this should be seen only as a necessary step to enable migration of linux onto the OpenPower CPU platforms which have no back doors.

The reason is that Intel “i” series CPUs have a ARM based Machine Management Unit and that MMU can access all the main memory and communicate via the NIC to the outside world. This is a total back door which Intel says is safe because it is encrypted with their keys. After VW can corporates be trusted not to compromise their customers? AMD incorporates a similar system.

Which leaves the RasPi as one of the few really secure computing platforms. Well done to all involved and I am sure those users in oppressed countries will be able to sleep more soundly. All the best to every one. I DVD booted this on an old Dell Latitude C610 with just 256M of memory (add to upgrade list). The HD died as I was doing it so I replaced it with one lying around. Rather than trying to find a 20 year old windows to install I definitely wish to install this on it. Chromium does not work because SSE2 instructions are not supported on this Pentium III, but it will be great to be a keyboard and screen to VNC into my development Pi rather than a monitor and keyboard.

Or I could just mount a Pi on the back of the screen to be an upgraded system. Shridhar, Have you not heard of the Raspberry Pi.

It’s this great little computer that suddenly made single board, cheap but capable computers a real thing. You know they have this operating system on it called Raspbian. And then they improved the interface and called it PIXEL. The big selling point here is that PIXEL x86 allows you to share an environment between Windows/Mac and that little computer that’s become a big deal. I think this is a great present and quite forward thinking. Are there other minimal desktops that run on x86?

Of course, but they don’t all run on Pi hardware hence the present offering to create a cross platform capability. Excellent work – thank you. Writing this from Chromium on Pixel on a 2GB USB stick on an old Toshiba Netbook with Intel Atom processor. Performance is very slick and usable.

It also runs videos using VLC well, though so far I have not figured out how to get sound working (any thoughts?). Given this all fits and works in under 2GB including LibreOffice, it would be great to have a similar distro for the Raspberry Pi. Full Rasbian is >4GB, and the Lite version obviously has no GUI. Something in the middle with a GUI, but without Wolfram, Minecraft etc would be a great addition to the standard Raspian images. Thanks Simon. Just got the sound working.

Right clicking on the volume icon, the only device listed was HDA Intel, which was ticked. Digging further from the applications menu under Preferences / Audio Device Settings I needed to turn the Headphones on and Speakers off to get sound coming from the PC speakers (for no obvious reason!). Hope this helps anyone else puzzling this out! As I said this is a very slick and quick implementation for use on an old PC. Sure there are lots of other lite Linux distros available, but given the huge installed base of the Raspberry Pi I think it is a brilliant idea to clone this for the PC.

Simon, The audio speaker icon is not in the menu bar and I don’t know how to get it there. I had to delete lines using the work around fix from the panel file that you suggested to get the menu bar to appear at all. I get sound in YouTube when I use the sound mixer app to turn on everything.

Unfortunately, I have to keep the audio device settings shortcut on the desktop near the menu bar in order to adjust audio. I would really like to get the speaker icon working on the menu bar.

PS I just downloaded the Arduino app and used it on a temperature and pressure sensor running on an Arduino, which has an LCD backlit display, and it also gives the correct numbers when running on the serial port monitor!! Great to see that we can at least talk/listen USB serial to Arduino with this x86 version!! Awesome, keep it up! I have lots of old PC’s only retired because they could not keep up with the changes needed to run later versions of Windows, when they could run versions of Raspian. Really, really nice.

Okay, so my Eee Pc 4g laptop booted and ran PIXEL fine for about 20 minutes up until a few minutes ago. Upon trying to shutdown, An error box came up saying ‘Failed to execute child process “lxde-pi-shutdown-helper” (Input/output error)’. Similar input output error messages come up with other programs. The programs I can run are LXterminal, the task manager and the file manager. If I try sudo shutdown -h now in the terminal it just says shutdown not found. I tried using Ctrl+Alt+f1 and putting the shutdown command in there but more input/output errors came up. I think these problems are because my USB drive (It’s a Maplin 4GB one) isn’t working?

Preferably, I would like to be able to shutdown safely but I feel like that would be far fetched in the circumstances. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Your thumb drive may be able to recover i have had several drives stop working after using them as linux boot dives i have gotten them to work by using gparted in a linux distro and deleting the partition (Be extremely careful that your thumb dive is selected and not your internal drive.) them applying and create new partition table then applying and creating a new fat32 partition and applying. This method has fixed several dives for me and they are still working however your success may vary. Side note i have found that many of new WD portable hard drives i have gotten needed this to work as well. Just a thought, pi in the cloud?

I’m dreaming here, but virtual pi’s based on x86 on Azure or other Vcpu machines clouds linked to ARM physical pi’s and virtual box pi’s all distributed/clustered in a school network to make a super computer available anywhere any time. As said being able to login on a home PC great. But if the kids go to grannys and forget there pi, then they could login to the cloud and carry on. This would be something like iCloud with handoff. So thinking big here. Great news, I’m just waiting to play with it in virtual box and load it into a Ramdisk. I would think that if it can breathe new life into anything as old as a x386, there would be an immediate interest.

I am, as I have salvaged a DELL Dimesion that didn’t even have a DVD drive, just an IDE CD Drive and IDE Hard Drive. Its a Pentium 4 that even came with the XP key sticker. I have managed to reinstall XP (without SP3) and compared to PIXEL, its like looking at windows with 16 bit graphics. Since I am using recycled IDE DVD drive, its slow as hell and doesn’t really allow for running multiple things. Its also running on 512 MB (I ordered a 2GB kit for the machine). I can’t wait to try this on my Pi 2 Model B, but I don’t see any instructions for installing PIXEL on an SD card. Will it run off an USB drive on the Pi without anything in the SD slot?

Forgive my ignorance, but I am new to everything Linux and looking to set up Linux machines to practice on. Hi all at Pi Towers. Having spent a happy afternoon chatting all thing Pi with your JDB, the idea of Pi-on-a-PC seemed to grow on me as the hours passed. However, having already pushed the Pi3 to its limits in Mathematica – I realise that licensing issues were going to prevent me getting any further with Pixel-PC. And I still haven’t been able to find any way of getting a Pi to print to any of my LAN-connected printers. SO, what are the chances of being able to do this with Pixel-PC? Still, I’ll get a copy downloaded overnight, and see how many of my ancient laptops will run the image tomorrow.

Keep pushing the edges of the envelope (somewhere, there must be a way out of those twisty little passages, all looking the same!!) Season’s greetings. Cheers, Niall (Eben, I’ll let Jonathan come back down to you when he has solved all my PI problems up here!!

We should be done by Feruary, maybe March) •. The Plop Boot Manager is a small program with unbelievable many features.

Pixel is my favorite linux distro, bar none. Yes, to the 64 bit and installable versions – my whole network ( >15 boxes) will adopt it in a heartbeat. The other xu4 fan (wow, there are two of us) might note that odrobian is fairly similar (not quite as nice) and also pretty fastso not as much need as for the PC arch. One wonders if with a little work, it being arm and all, one might roll one’s one xu4 pixel As a developer for just about all sizes and types computers, tiny to huge, I’ve been frustrated with ubuntu, and even mate’s latest as a bunch of my older tools quit working or being available in the distro repos. (gad, I even use padre for perlneckbeard is showing) But they all work on pixel (on the pi, I’m downloading now for x86/virtbox).

Thanks again, I’ll be back if there’s anything useful to report to you. I agree about the “modern” stuff – I like pixel *because* of what it is.

In VirtualBox’s command line tools I converted 2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso into an 8 GB vdi file. Booting into the vdi file, I selected “Run with persestence.” This produces an experience very similar to running a “real” pi. For those unfamiliar with the commands necessary to do this, here they are: cd into the directory where 2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso resides. VBoxManage convertfromraw 2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso 2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.vdi VBoxManage modifymedium 2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.vdi –resize 8192 •. It’s nice to see a link to software that can make bootable usb’s but for those of us carrying a keyring of usb’s is there any software that would be recommended for making a single bootable usb that can boot into a menu that allows you to select from multiple live images/iso’s to boot from? I read instructions on how to do this once before but only managed to make 2 usb sticks unreadable and a 3rd that looked right on the surface but failed to boot into any iso image except a windows install image I threw on there for haha’s Not looking for persistance, a second usb drive on my keychain can be used to save data between sessions. Just want to go from a whole bunch of different bootable usb’s to 1 or 2.

Thanks – Just what I need, I do a lot of motorcycling touring where space is at a premium, I have two old netbooks which have the exact form factor I want. I had just tried Peppermint Linux which made them usable. But with Pixel the experience was great. The netbooks have around ~1.8 GHz Atom processors and 2GB RAM. My ancient IBM Thinkpad A22 is the next beast to test. Quick thoughts on 64 bit version. 64 bit code runs slower due to larger executable and instructions.

Since the need to address >4 $GB RAM is not great it may not buy much. That being said I have been running SuSe 64 bit on my Pi 3 and it performs well. I just know how to do it.

On a console or terminal just type the command xrandr and will output the available modes for the connected displays. In my case the connected display is named Virtual1 (as I’m running into a virtualized computer inside of VmWare Fusion). Then, just type xrandr with the output of the screen connected and the resolution mode needed. Here is an example for my virtual environment, but should work with any virtual or physical computer.

Using “2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso” from in VMware Fusion ver 8.5.3 application in current MacOS (selecting machine type “Debian 8.x”) boots PIXEL. The default display size was annoyingly small until I tried Luis Alcaraz suggested Terminal command “xrandr” to expand the display window. ===== I think the reply window of this blog translated double-dashes in the command, “xrandr –output Virtual1 –mode 1024×768”. However, (we) won’t know until I post this. ===== Running PIXEL in VMware provides “snap-shots” which helps overcome lack of “persistence” in saving configuration changes after reboot. ===== I look forward to a future PIXEL installer for non-ARM processors and appreciate this effort. PIXEL for Linux/PC/Mac is a brilliant bridge for legacy hardware users into the Raspberry Pi environment.

Successfully running in VirtualBox on my Mac mini. Performance might not be too much of a problem. Not getting sound from Sonic Pi, but that’s more or less to be expected. However, haven’t been able to run from a flashed USB thumbdrive, on either this 2011 Mac mini or a Lenovo Flex 2 15 laptop. Burnt the image with Etcher but no machine (including a RasPi3 running Ubuntu MATE) seems to recognize the filesystem. On macOS, it only shows the disk (no volume) and it’s called “0x17”. On Windows 10, it says there’s no valid filesystem.

On Ubuntu-MATE, the USB drive doesn’t seem to mount. Tried with two USB keys (a 64GB one and a 2GB one). Etcher didn’t warn me of any error. And since the ISO image works under VirtualBox, it can’t really be a problem with the download This must be really obvious but no idea what’s going wrong. If it helps, it doesn’t work on my 2011 Mac mini either – this image does not like something about that platform. Other Debian live images (including my first hacked-together prototype for this) work perfectly on it; I think we have something not quite right in the EFI code in the ISO.

We’ll be looking at this early next year. No idea why it doesn’t work on your Win10 machine though – this is the first report I’ve seen of it not booting on a Windows machine. Although it’s entirely possible that is also an EFI issue, as some modern PC motherboards are using EFI instead of traditional BIOS.

Hopefully the same fix will deal with both •. So, to report back on this It does boot on my 2011 Mac mini if I press option instead of C. Thought I had already tried that before posting, but it worked later on. So, that part is semi-solved. No luck on my UEFI Win10 laptop (Lenovo Flex 2 15). The same USB flash drive boots in Linux Mint on the same computer with the same config, but not Raspbian/PIXEL. Trying Mint on that machine really convinced me that some Linux distro is the best way to get good performance out of it.

Just need to find the best setup for that. Thanks for all the good work! It works out of the box on my Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1010) – 88-90 MB RAM with the Task Manager on.

It’s great having a nice OS for this old 32-bit-only Atom CPU (Z520) netbook, so I wish there was an official installer.:) Here’s some feedback. The boot splash has a gray 1px line on the bottom and a red 1px line on the right.

The wifi password input (as on the RasPi) is clear-text bummer. The bluetooth applet is loaded although I have no bluetooth device (is this normal/expected?). Also, the default state of the bluetooth is “on” (when I click the applet, I can “Turn Off Bluetooth” and “Make Discoverable”) – weird, considering there’s no such device in the netbook.

The applet’s icon is gray, though. The default icon names come in white, which is nearly invisible on the default background. Are shadows possible for this thing? Would it take up a lot of resources? There are no RasPi favourites in the pre-installed browser. Must have!:D 6. Having inxi in the default image would be a weclome addition.

I installed it along with other diagnostic tools (about 5MB): sudo apt-get install inxi hddtemp lm-sensors mesa-utils read-edid 7. This is a wonderful Christmas present. Thank you all and Merry Christmas to everyone!:D Here are some details about my hardware with PIXEL: CPU: Intel Atom Z520 RAM: 1 GB GPU: Intel GMA500 (Poulsbo) running Galium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits) with GLX 3.0 support (Mesa 10.3.2) LAN: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E (driver: r8169) WLAN: Broadcom BCM4312 (driver: wl) •. Known issue – we’re looking into it. This is a deliberate decision. Think about it – why do you want to avoid someone seeing a wifi password? Either you are in a public place, in which case you are connecting to an public wifi point, so it doesn’t matter if someone sees the password, or you are at home connecting to your secure wifi access point, in which case no-one is going to be able to see the password.

Obscuring wifi passwords is completely pointless 99% of the time; it just makes life really inconvenient. The applet will load whether you have BT hardware or not.

Go into Preferences->Appearance Settings and change the desktop text colour. Shadows are deliberately disabled as they just look blurry 5. Raspi favourites are in the start menu – our site, the help pages, the Magpi •. Thanks for your answer, Simon.:) Regarding #2, I hope in the future there will be an option to hide the password. Here are just a few reasons: – home visitors, you want to demonstrate PIXEL or GNU/Linux; – public demonstration on a private wifi – meant for presentations only; – using your PC in a public place, with your own phone’s hotspot (no one wants to care about prying eyes) etc It’s not a problem when you can show the password, but it’s a terrible problem when you must (but you can’t) hide the password.

To be honest, I can’t tell you anything about NOOBS – it’s not something I work with, and I don’t think it uses GTK, which is what all the UI stuff I do work with uses. For reference, for everything *other* than NOOBS, you can have strings pretty much as long as you want, and GTK will intelligently resize the window to fit them.

In the absence of better information, I’d suggest working on the basis that you don’t want to be more than 10-20% longer than the current English strings; ideally, you’d want to be no longer at all than the English versions. PIXELonPC is a very nice piece of Pi. Thank Eben, Simon and all who worked on it. I booted it on a HP-Elitebook-6930p via a cheap 8GB ThumbDrive & had no menu bar until today’s MagPi article showed the command line fix. So far it seems to be a really good fit. I’m using it right now w/WI-FI while its playing MP3 music on the PCs speaker + stereo bluetooth. Still lots of things to try, including using a leftover A+ for the GPIO.

All those remarks about ‘reinventing the wheel’ the reality that better wheels are a really good thing. I think this will be very important. Best regards, Neil W. The Error I get when trying to start Chromium reads: “The hardware on this system lacks support for the sse2 instruction set, The upstream chromium project no longer supports this configuration, For more input, please read and possibly provide input to their bug tracking system at.” Reading the link (in Firefox on a 9 year old Macbook Pro running Ubuntu 16.04) it looks like my problem is that the PC’s Athlon XP processor itself is pre sse2, so nothing I can change to make that AMD PC run chromium on a Pixel PC-Pi. I can see some people have compiled an earlier version of Chrome to solve the problem. Firefox for Pixel anyone?

Am I missing anything? Giving this a go on a not-so-old-but-does-not-run-great HP Pavilion dv2-1030us with the intention of installing directly onto an SSD. I only found out later that this is meant to run straight from DVD or USB. I was giving CloudReady’s version of ChromeOS a shot, but it’s just still too slow. That single core Athlon Neo 64 is just a chugger.:) Anyone have any thoughts on installing this to the SSD? I had Xubuntu on it and it did run OK, but I just really like the simplicity and cleanliness of Pixel. So far it seems to be loading up fine and connecting to wifi, so that’s already better than I expected.

Congratulations, this is a typically outstanding project and contribution to the community from the Raspberry Pi team. I have tried the x86 image on a variety of systems, some of which are quite old: Fujitsu Lifebook S2110: Boot from DVD and runs, but networking wasn’t working, neither wired nor wireless.

Fujitsu Lifebook S6510: Boot from USB stick, runs, and everything appears to work, including wired and wireless networking Samsung 305U: Boots from USB stick, runs, everything works Samsung N150 Plus: Boots from USB stick, runs, and everything works. Acer Aspire V 13 (V3-331): The USB stick is not recognized as bootable. I would also vote for an installable image – but I think that keeping the DVD/USB Live image as the top priority is important. We did have a chat with them about the inaccuracies in the original article, and they’ve made some changes, but a few of the original inaccuracies stayed in. That said, the semantics of free and open seem to be beyond a lot of sites which are dedicated to tech (unlike the BBC news, which is general news coverage); tbh, I’d have been surprised to see a discussion of the GPL there, and it’s arguable that the BBC news site is not the place for that! (Even The Register called it an OS rather than a desktop environment – we’re just very happy that so many places have decided to cover the release.) •.

Runs well on a single core Celeron from 2004. Like the rPi itself, this is usable far beyond “teaching kids to code”. I use Live Linux for troubleshooting and fixing computers, and this is great tool. I can customize the USB stick so that in my shop I have the settings I prefer, but on untrusted networks I can choose the non-persistent option.

I have had the panel go missing on first USB boot on several machines, so there might be something there. Any suggestions to help find the issue?

I’m willing to test. If I may suggest one thing, it would be to make the persistence partition FAT, so that “other OS’s” could use it as well. Thank you, and Happy Holidays. The missing panel seems to be due to sound hardware which isn’t playing nicely with ALSA causing the volume plugin to crash. The fix seems to be to remove that plugin – see instructions here – As far as I am aware, the persistence partition needs to be in ext4 – everything I have read on the subject suggests that to be the case. If you know differently and can point me at instructions for how to make a FAT persistence partition work, then please let me know and we’ll investigate – I agree that it would be useful to be able to access persistence from other systems. I think it could become quite popular.

I have tried an ISO/USB Rasbian Pixel boot on an Atom-powered Samsung NC10 – nice little laptop about 8 years old. It originally had Windows XP I think but I have recently been using it as a “Chromebook” with Neverware’s Cloudready, another offering to revive old Windows machines. It’s good but much more limited than Raspbian Pixel. The USB boot fails: “ISOLINUX 6.9 EHDD. Failed to load ldlinux.c32 Boot failed: press a key to retry” Is that message from your ISO?

Can I fix it? Boots fine on an oldish Acer V3-771 with 12GB ram and 1600×900 display, using the standard bios. Will be investigating soon on a Toshiba chromebook 2 – 4GB ram and the HD IPS screen – (suitably modified with the bios write enable and the USB boot bios) which has previously worked well with Mint 17.2 but not really sure if I want to give up a USB socket; it’s not exactly endowed with them. Installation to the internal ‘drive’ would be beneficial. Crack Hardware Fingerprint Generator. I do have a 64GB SD card but that contains data I want to keep.

It functions OK on my old Toshiba Satellite laptop (booting from USB stick), but either persistence isn’t working for me, or else I don’t understand what persistence means I start with persistence, but I can’t even get it to keep the battery monitor in the task bar between boots, let alone keep my wireless LAN setting or any cookies in the browser, even when I specifically allow them. At least all those things work once I reset them every time, but who wants to start over every time you boot? Also Etcher didn’t work for me to flash the ISO onto the stick either (using a win-8 PC, at least). I had to use Rufus instead. First of all you NEED to provide a CRC, and I mean something EASY TO FIND, not just for ppl who dig A LOT (like me), this is MINIMUM good sense, not just about security, but also about safety, I for example, use download manager which splits the file in pieces and download it in parallel from multiple sources, SO I `NEED` TO KNOW THAT FILE WAS RECEIVED CORECTLY!!!! Second is NOT WORKING FROM MICROSOFT EDGE, I get a totally wrong page there and third wget -q -O- ‘7d0bfa01b95ffae8e0767f12b92cdd1b03d23473 /var/www/pixel_x86/images/pixel_x86-2016--12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso I don’t know how you call this, but I call it EMBARASING, not only that image not supposed to have a path, but you actually give away a VALID path on your server WOW •.

What a hacker can do? I don’t care, BUT YOU SHOULD, be cause when your site is hacked then you gonna cry, NOT ME and wow, you are the kind of person who deflect it’s own embarrassment by changing the subject to anything AND EVERYTHING ELSE, 1, you are soooo smart, may I touch you?

I didn’t start my post with “I know English perfect”, get this dude, some ppl don’t actually been born in an English paradise 3. UNLIKE YOU I’m not an international site with (at least) thousands of visitors I DON’T NEED TO BE PERFECT •. If you manage to get installation support for x86, x86_64 and any ARM (maybe PowerPC) and support for touch screens out of the box, so that it can be installed on tablet PCs also, than in my opinion at least the owners and users of the 11 Million Raspberry PI’s out there will be using it on their PCs, MACs and Tablets for development and normal day-by-day tasks besides the Raspberry PIs HW in embedded applications. Also remember a lot of companies selling after 3 or 4 years old PCs for a low price to employees for my knowledge – so this is the base for running Linux and now with a well purposed version for education. No need for any other OS anymore for those how wanna want •. I’m sorry to break this to you, Ernest, but the only person who would be creating fixes for this issue for download from our repo is me, and I’m pretty sure I’d remember if I’d created one!

An update and dist-upgrade isn’t going to make the slightest difference to this issue. I suspect what you are referring to is a completely different bug in the original release of PIXEL for Pi, which also caused the menu bar to crash; this was an issue with the icon rendering and nothing to do with the issue for PIXEL-x86, which is caused by incompatible audio devices.

At the moment, the workaround of removing the plugin is the only option for people with this issue; when I get back in to the office in the New Year and can repeat it, I’ll hopefully be able to find a fix. Instruction to create bootable USB stick on Mac # Running on Mac # list disk volumes diskutil list # assume the USB stick on /dev/disk4 sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk4 MBRFormat FAT32 PIXEL 8g FAT32 PERSISTENCE 54g mkdir -p /Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot # Download Enterprise-0.4.0.tar.gz to ~/Download #from cd ~/Downloads tar xzvf Enterprise-0.4.0.tar.gz cp ~/Downloads/Enterprise-0.4.0/boot* /Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot/ cp ~/2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso /Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot/boot.iso cat >/Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot/enterprise.cfg. Instructions to create bootable USB stick on Mac # Running on Mac # list disk volumes diskutil list # assume format USB stick on /dev/disk4 sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk4 MBRFormat FAT32 PIXEL 8g FAT32 PERSISTENCE 54g mkdir -p /Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot # Download Enterprise-0.4.0.tar.gz to ~/Download # from cd ~/Downloads tar xzvf Enterprise-0.4.0.tar.gz cp ~/Downloads/Enterprise-0.4.0/boot* /Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot/ cp ~/Downloads/2016-12-13-pixel-x86-jessie.iso /Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot/boot.iso # create enterprise.cfg cat >/Volumes/PIXEL/efi/boot/enterprise.cfg. As I said all I get is the wastebasket.

Disappointing but glad it works for most people. Can’t really see it being more than a five minute novelty though, unless these problems are sorted and an easy installation process is provided. Guess it’s all in the spirit of Raspberry Pi though, to get students to find out how to do these things, not really intended or suitable for mass market appeal – or very helpful for non-techy parents. Could be quite discouraging for many people who will only give it one chance and then have their worst fears confirmed.

Hi, Fanstastic idea! Struggling with my Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro 1370 Windows 10. Managed t get to first boot screen (rasberry logo, persistence options etc) after changing bios menu to support ‘Legacy’ as well as EFI. It then proceeds to ‘Loading’ in large font, then small font. A brief flash of something mid scceen and then blank. After a while I did get a quick flash of the pixel background image (long road) whnen I moved the mouse and when I did Ctrl Alt Tab the flash stick led whirred into life suggesting it was doing something – so perhaps it’s working but there a problem driving the diaplay (I’m using laptop screen not an external monitor)?

Hope this info is of some use to you and others. Merry Christmas PS: Might be wort including a link in the main downloads page to the PC distro – I spent a wasted hour or two trying to install the Raspbian image for the Pi on my PC! I’m an idiot, but I’m sure there will be others who will do the same.

I’ll second the comment from 12/22 from Bill McBride: >a question: i am trying to figure out how to set the clock time displayed in the upper right menu barthe lxpanel clock. Also on my keyboard the @ is transplaced to the ” key, and vis-a-versa” I also have the @ and ” keys transposed.

Mine is on an old Lenovo S10e which worked really, really well otherwise. Note – Bill: you can use Terminal sudo timedatectl – this article below tells you how to set time and date (and I did sudo timedatectl set-timezone EST to fix my settings) •. I have some old Pentium III machines running Windows 98SE. Well, I use them to run some old industrial hardware, Device Programmers (such as Needham EMP-20’s) and so on.

I attempted to replace W98 with FreeDOS, but some of the software that runs my old device programmers fails on FreeDOS with “illegal opcodes”, no doubt errors in the software, but W98 is “forgiving” of them. I occasionally need to connect them to my network to transfer some files. I am going to try to dual boot them with this OS for file transfer purposes.

I love Debian. This is just what I need, I think probably won’t commit to an actual install until the actual non-beta release,,, •. Awesome work, guys! Also, thanks for the pointer to Etcher, I’ve been sort of looking for something sort of like that. FWIW, several people asked if it would run on Atom systems, and yes it will. On my old MSI netbook with an Atom it runs quite well, with performance comparable to the Puppy Linux it has been running for years.

Now, Puppy is a mature distro aimed at low-end machines, for this new release to approach its useability is just phenomenal. And while I’m rambling, thanks also for the pointer to timedatectl–it’ll take me a good long while to get used to systemd. And actually, I suggest a GUI to set time and timezone, I doubt I’m the only one fool enough to spend a couple hours fiddling with config files just to bork the system. Keep up the good fight! This is so awesome! I have an old Pentium 4 that I pretty much couldn’t do anything with.

Chromium wouldn’t install because it does a CPU check. The same with new distributions of Linux. I tried older versions of Linux, but I’ve never gotten good video performance, and the browser is so out of date anyway. But Pixel works great! My P4 is now like a Chromebook!

I can view YouTube smoothly–way to breath life into an old machine! I hope you keep tinkering with it–I would like to be able to actually install this on my old machines rather than just run it from a USB stick. First of all: THANK YOU! This is a wonderful idea. I’ve been looking at the various “small” linux distributions for a while now, for something that would allow software development on old hardware. But most of the distributions are aimed at a different kind of small hardware, and different application spaces (MythTV, various kinds of servers, web browsers and kiosks.) Having an (already popular) distribution that is focused on writing code is great, and I already see a bunch of stuff that I like Second, it ran fine under VirtualBox on my Mac.

I followed the instructions up-thread to move it to the “hard drive”, and that seems to work OK as well (I have persistent files, but it doesn’t look as though it’s actually handling them like a disk. I could live with that, I think. But it’s nice to know you have plans toward a more disk-friendly version Thirdly, it’s a nice ‘try me’ for RPi that doesn’t involve as much fiddling with hardware. Though at some point, deciding how much you want to support x86 hardware vs RPi hardware will probably become an issue •. Merry christmas must say: 1.this is best invention after raspberry pi hardware 2.as no one can get informations directly out of a blog with hundreds of posts it should be a possibility to get this from usb or cd to a harddisk with optimal partitions otherwise persistence does not work 3.non-english people neet a reduced raspi-config to obtain language and keyboard and clock-troubles 4.duckduckgo should be replaced by google search 5.then raspberry pc/mac will turn down windows & co i like to see you things developing in future as in past good luck and thanks a lot •. Interesting idea – waiting for improvements. I give to the R-Pi in my mind the merit of spreading the goodwill of tech to people.

I got mi PI 1 y ago and what opened for me in a very short time was a more benevolent view for the Linux environment especially when I realized that I have a much better (easier) access to hardware from Python / Linux environment (than from Windows). I installed a Debian 8 64 on a dual core Intel PC with 4 GB of ram and since I’m using it as a full replacement for the PI during software development mostly because is faster and has a larger software collection. The possibility of accessing the I2C via Python in the PC’s VGA port was extremely beneficial for some of my developments. I tested the PIXEL on a 2 GB AMD 32 and the first unpleasant element is that Chrome rejects my “old” (true) hardware so I don’t “browse” internet. The next thing is that in a persistent option I would like to install some extra software but I was not able to get in SU mode to install the synaptic manager. The main drawback from Debian 8 32 bit is the very slow Firefox browser ( but at least it is there) otherwise it is equivalent. PIXEL on PI hardware works great I like it and it looks acceptable fast for my needs.

On the PC I will stick with the Debian 8 for the moment. Attempting to bodge my way through some kind of install and see if I can get it to fly on my old Motion M1400. Knowing that Debian itself is a possibility on this device (including sound and using the Wacom pen features) makes this OS VERY appealing to breathe new life into a machine that I feel has some years of service left. Worked OK under XP, but it felt clunky.

And had very little luck with win7 once i shoehorned it onto the device. Coupled with a 2gb ram upgrade and SSD this looks like fun! Please make an installable version based on the current Debian 32 bit release. Then everyone should be able to get it to run on almost anything. I have wasted too many hours trying to get this to permanently install on a variety of PCs, always having to compromise something. Even the VirtualBox idea gives less than a perfect and slow solution. I love the fact that you guys have curated the Raspberry Pi solution.

Now lets make your remarkable software curation efforts more universally available. Until then I will just stick with PIXEL on a Raspberry Pi, PiTop or PiTop CEED. Thanks for everything you do toward making your way of thinking as ubiquitous as possible.

That icon theme REALLY doesn’t feel like it fits with the art direction of the rest of the desktop, the clock widget needs a few pixels more padding on the left, and the close button in the titlebar looks a little misaligned when presented above that thin scrollbar. (The problem is that the widget and titlebar theme are completely flat, matte, and without outlines, while the shapes in the icons have very heavy outlines and a glassy gloss accent on the folders.) That flaw aside, what I can see in the screenshots looks good.