Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1099206/

Simon Long has announced
a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 (“trixie”),
for x86-64 systems.

We managed to find the time to update the Desktop for the Buster and Bullseye
releases of Debian, but then we all just got too busy with other things, and,
while we left the Bullseye version on the website for anyone who wanted it, we
simply didn’t have time to release any newer versions. But people kept on asking
for it – we get two or three emails every week asking when the PC Desktop will
be updated, and we haven’t had an answer, because we honestly didn’t know when
we might get a chance to do it. We’ve continually tried to allocate time to be
able to work on this, but it hasn’t been easy. […]

Earlier this year, we (or rather Serge) finally got the latest version of the
Desktop running on top of a Debian Trixie image. It’s now based on 64-bit Debian
(the amd64 architecture) rather than the older 32-bit version, as Debian itself
has stopped supporting 32-bit for PC architectures. This shouldn’t be a major
problem – most PCs made in the last 15 years or so will quite happily run the
64-bit version of Debian, as will most Intel-based Macs. (Debian support for
Apple Silicon is still experimental, so unfortunately those of you with the
latest and greatest shiny fruit products will not be able to run this.)