Raspberry Pi software developers have finally brought into the limelight a Debian “wheezy” reference image for the USB PC device.
According to a blog post from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the release is relative to the Debian “squeeze” image and Raspberry Pi USB PC owners can try using it now. The organization warns that this is only a beta release so testers must provide feedback in terms of real-time experiences.
“Alex has produced a new reference image based on the upcoming Debian “wheezy” release,” writes Eben Upton, the Raspberry Pi creator, on the foundation’s blog.
“This incorporates Dom’s latest firmware, and numerous kernel patches for performance and stability. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be running a public beta program to identify major bugs, and in particular regressions relative to the existing Debian ‘squeeze’ image,” he added.
While this is only a beta release, Upton is quite sure that it will be worth the try, saying, “You will almost definitely find it a worthwhile upgrade.”
Raspberry Pi offers several options to download the Debian “wheezy” image, be it on direct download or vie torrent, and provided the accompanying username, password and hash.
System recommendations include a 2GB SD card (4GB should give a more well suited room). Like all operating systems, the first boot should expectedly be very slow.













Just so you know the pi is not a USB PC. It is an sd card PC, you can’t boot it from USB, it doesn’t have male USB connectors so you don’t plug it into another PC via USB to access it etc etc. It runs from its sd card, and the USB slots are so you can plug in keyboard and mouse or other devices, just like a desktop PC which presumably you would call a USB PC either. There ARE USB pcs on the market… The pi, for all its awesomeness, isn’t one of them.
Thanks for the heads up! Already updated the article.