All the stars are here
A brand-new microcomputer from Hell needs a brand-new OS. Enter the Raspberry Pi Foundation with Bookworm, the latest (un)cool product label for the next version of the Raspberry Pi OS.
While not surprising, or even exciting news, we still think this is a neat release. It’s a port of the Linux distribution Debian’s latest release, and is thus named after the immortal star of the Toy Story franchise, rather than the world’s greatest PopCap game.
Teasing us all with that ’nothing and yet everything has changed‘ snake oil, the Raspberry Pi Foundation explained that the new OS features significant changes to its software architecture.All change
Crucially, this means a move from the ancient X11 protocol to Wayland, promising increased performance for Pis 4 and 5 while the Foundation works to support Wayland on lower-power boards – presumably the Pi 3 at the very least.
Our sister site Tom’s Hardware has more on the technical side of Wayland’s implications, as well as this genuine sentence:
“[…]we had early access to a beta of Bookworm and found it to be a great OS. There were some bugs, and we noted this in our review, but that is what happens with beta software.
