Lightweight OS ‘PIXEL’ for Raspberry Pi is available for free on Mac & PC

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This lightning fast operating system ‘PIXEL’ is optimized to run productivity & game software on the Raspberry Pi, a cheap microprocessor for hobbyists & students. It has now been released as a free downloadable image that will run on old, underpowered PCs & Macs that are ready for the scrapyard, potentially giving them a new lease on life.

If you’ve given up on your old x86-based laptop or MacBook, you can breathe new life into it using this highly optimized & fast Raspbian & Linux Debian-based OS. The minimum requirements on the PC side is that you have an x86 processor with at least 512MB of RAM. PIXEL is visually appealing & comes with the latest version of Chromium, the open source version of the Google Chrome browser, as well as a productivity software suite, programming tools & everything you’d expect from a modern OS.

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