Official Raspberry Pi OS Gets Performance Improvements and Latest Debian Updates | Linux Today

Official Raspberry Pi OS Gets Performance Improvements and Latest Debian Updates

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Marius Nestor
Apr 11, 2019

Powered by the Linux 4.14.98 kernel, Raspbian 2019-04-08 has been released this week and it’s packed with a bunch of updated components, among which we can mention the Chromium 72 web browser, VLC 3.0.6 media player, RealVNC Server 6.4.0, and Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.156 plugin. Raspbian 2019-04-08 also includes new programs, such as the ethtool utility displaying and modifying various parameters of the network interface controllers and respective device drivers, the rng-tools utility related to random number generation in the Linux kernel.

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Marius Nestor

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