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wraggster
August 5th, 2012, 11:22
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Many of you have still not yet received your Raspberry Pi. When you do, you’ll find that there is work to be done in the operating system to get things working as you might want them to. The wonderful folks over at Adafruit have tackled this by releasing their own distribution of Linux for the Raspberry Pi (http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro/).
Based on the shipped distribution “Wheezy”, Adafruit’s distribution “Occidentalis v0.1. Rubus occidentalis” or “the Black Raspberry” now includes the following:


Updated to Hexxeh firmware (https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update)
4 Gig SD image (will not fit in 2 G cards!)
I2C and hardware SPI (http://www.brianhensley.net/2012/07/getting-spi-working-on-raspberry-pi.html) support
I2C/SPI modules initialized on boot
sshd on boot
ssh keygen on first boot
runs ahavi daemon (Bonjour client) and is called raspberrypi.local
Realtek RTL8188CUS wifi support
One wire support on GPIO #4 when loaded (https://github.com/FrankBuss/linux-1/commit/71871509238d3e7bce4a74cdf616c3f12542acaa)

http://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/adafruits-custom-rasp-pi-distro-eases-some-pain/