Re: PiSiN Desktop First Release - 0.8.2
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <[email protected]>
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That is great! But I wonder why this is tied to a specific hardware at all? Doesn't it suffice to provide Debian packages for different CPU architectures (arm, arm64, i386, mips and more) to make it an experience for everybody? So that it is not reinventing Debian installers but just adding a new GUI and desktop flavour? I had already experimented such an approach with GSDE and had planned to add it to our LetuxOS set of GUI variants. It is based on a small architecture-independent Debian package which tries to download and build GSDE from sources if installed: https://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/debian/dists/bullseye/main/binary-all/letux-gsde_0.20250122101129_all.deb This compiled (back then), but unfortunately did not run and I have not found time yet to investigate why. And I am not sure if the wrapped GSDE build recipe still works. Anyways, there are some rootfs images with GSDE https://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/toc1.html besides QuantumSTEP, LXDE or XfCE4 images and more. You can build a bootable µSD (tested for RasPi 3B+) using the makesd tool, which formats and partitions a storage and merges a bootloader and kernel. But your initiative is to be applauded because it is impressive. BR, Nikolaus > Am 26.09.2025 um 19:49 schrieb Patrick Cardona <[email protected]>: > > Hello, > > I am happy to announce the achievement of the first stable release of the Pi Step Initiative desktop. > If you have a Raspberry Pi 3B, 4 or 400, please give it a try... > I am waiting some days before announcing on the Raspberry forum. > > It is published on Github: > https://github.com/pcardona34/pi-step-initiative > > A screenshot with the new theme: > > <screenshot_PiSiN_on_Pi_400_Apps_and_Home.png> > Enjoy! > Patrick > > -- > Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux (Debian 12 aarch64: RPI OS Lite) > Xorg (1:1.7.1-1.2) - libcairo2 (1.16.0-7+rpt1 arm64) > Window Maker (0.95.9) - GNU Runtime - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: PISIN - MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)