For a long time, and if I am not mistaken it had been that way from the beginning, the official operating system for Raspberry Pi boards was called Raspbian. A few months ago, the company decided to change the name to another with more personality, without including part of "Debian" in its name and renamed it to Raspberry PiOS. Based directly on Debian, the speed or frequency of some updates is not the best, but they have recently received a significant one.
The new version, released a week ago, is Raspberry Pi OS 2020-08-20 and its most outstanding novelty is that they have updated the kernel to the latest LTS version, that is, the Linux 5.4 that companies like Canonical decided to include in their also latest LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 released last April. At that time, Linux 5.6 had already been released, but Long Term Support releases often go hand in hand.
Raspberry Pi OS Highlights 2020-08-20
- Linux 5.4 LTS, more specifically Linux 5.4.51. Until now, Raspbian and early versions of Raspberry Pi OS used Linux 4.19, released in October 2018 and included by Raspbian in June 2019.
- The raspi-config configuration tool has been updated, something that is related to the previous point.
- raspi-config now detects non-English speaking language audio devices.
- The recommended software tool has been updated to allow multiple install and uninstall operations without forcing us to close the program between each operation, and both 32bit and 64bit software installation has been enabled.
- Adobe Flash Player 32.0.0.414, the latest version.
- Italian has been added to PIXEL's own graphical environment.
- They have removed the Chromium User Feedback Poll.
On the other hand, the company has updated the tool to copy the system to an SD card. Interested users can download Raspberry Pi OS 2020.08.20 from this link.