Announcing the release of the PIXEL, which now officially stands for “PiImproved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight”. desktop, which will ship with the Foundation’s Raspbian image from now on.

This really is the IoT for the rest of us. Cayenne is a drag-and-drop IoT builder that makes working with the Raspberry Pi to create IoT apps as easy as it possibly can be. This isn't just another IoT cloud offering, it really is something new.

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FriendlyARM’s NanoPi M3 SBC runs Linux or Android on a 64-bit, octa-core Samsung S5P6818, and offers WiFi, BT, GbE, and a 40-pin RPi connector.

The Raspberry Pi is a phenomenon that will be remembered long after it has passed and I guess so will its companion OS Raspian, but it is amazing how slowly it evolves - a measure of the size of the task and the small resources allocated to it. The latest version brings some interesting extras for users and programmers. pibp