Debian “wheezy” public beta for Raspberry Pi

If you have got your Raspberry Pi you might want to try our the Debian “wheezy” public beta.

This is what was posted the Raspberry Pi blog:

Alex has produced a new reference image based on the upcoming Debian “wheezy” release. 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.

Although this is a beta release, you will almost definitely find it a worthwhile upgrade. Please give it a try, and report issues here.

Torrent
2012-06-18-wheezy-beta.zip.torrent

Direct download
2012-06-18-wheezy-beta.zip

SHA-1
cbe18f5a27ee2d3110d71b8316bfa465a9bc29f6

Default login
Username: pi Password: raspberry

Thanks to everyone on the forums who tested an earlier version of this release, and in particular to lb for investigating SD card performance issues and contributing patches. Notes:

• It will fit on a 2GB SD card, but 4GB will leave you with a more comfortable amount of room; we now include a tool to make it easy to resize the filesystem to use the full SD card.
• Future firmware updates will be delivered via apt-get upgrade.
• The first boot is expected to be slower than subsequent boots.

Now where did I put those spare SD cards?

Have you ordered one?