Today we updated Occidentalis v0.2 – Adafruit’s Raspberry Pi Educational Linux Distro. This is our second distro,  Occidentalis v0.2. Rubus occidentalis is the black raspberry.  It is derived from Raspbian Wheezy August 16

We have made a few key changes to make it more hardware-hacker friendly!

Version 0.2 updates (new!)

• Truncated image – only 2.6G now to fit on any 4G card
• raspi-config notice retained on boot
• Removed persistant wlan0 entry
• Password-change reminder on login
• Added RTC and lm-sensors kernel module
• Included kernel modules for: DS1307, AD626 I2C digipots, HMC6352, BMP085, ADS1015
• New! Adafruit’s PWM/Servo kernel module for easy PWM/Servo control on GPIO#18

Version 0.1 updates (still included)

• Updated to Hexxeh firmware
• I2C and hardware SPI support
• I2C/SPI modules initialized on boot
• sshd on boot
• ssh keygen on first boot
• runs avahi daemon (Bonjour client) and is called raspberrypi.local
• Realtek RTL8188CUS wifi support
• One wire support on GPIO #4 when loaded

Please keep in mind, we are not full time linux distro maintainers – we will try to fix any bugs we find but this distro is not for beginners or people who are new to linux! NOTE: Be sure to check the MD5/SHA checksum before uncompressing/burning to your SD – it’s a big file and you can have Pi instability if a few bits are wrong!

Ok, enough jibber-jabber, go download it!