Yes - look into booting and running from a RAMDisk. I don’t see where anyone has done this because Linux takes a bit more memory than WinCE and doesn’t leave much for your application, but it can be done.
This sounds REALLY interesting My guess is that the base system with only the minimal installation packages might boot up the Raspberry Pi significantly faster? This would be great!
Only if any of those applications are involved in the start up process. Otherwise the O/S does it’s own thing, none the wiser about any applications that have been installed.
It should be noted that the guys at rpi dont suggest upgrading an existing OS to this version without making a backup first. Their suggestion is actually that you do a clean install.
Was just notified that my 2GB Pi 4 unit is on the way, but the 4GB unit is backordered until AUGUST!!!??? They didn’t think that people would want the 4GB unit?
* rpi-eeprom included
- This will automatically update the SPI EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 4 to the latest stable version.
See https://rpf.io/eeprom for more information.
* New icon theme for file manager icons
* Appearance Settings - option for identical desktop on both monitors
* Appearance Settings - option to show different desktop icons on both monitors
* Taskbar automatically moved to monitor 0 if monitor 1 not found at boot
* Switching of audio output between two HDMI devices added to volume plugin
* Switching of audio input devices added to volume plugin
* .asoundrc (ALSA config file) now uses 'plug' values to support more devices
* Audio Settings tool modified to integrate more closely with volume plugin to reduce duplicated code
* Screen Configuration tool now shows separate menus for resolution and refresh rate
* Primary and active monitor settings removed from Screen Configuration tool
* Overscan support added for FKMS driver
* New keyboard shortcuts added - Ctrl-Alt-End brings up shutdown menu; Ctrl-Alt-M moves taskbar between monitors
* Latest changes to Bluez ALSA interface integrated to improve connection to Bluetooth audio devices
* Mousepad used as simple text editor instead of leafpad
* Version 3.2 of Thonny added
* Version 74 of Chromium added
* Version 3.0.8 of VLC added
* Version 32.0.0.255 of Flash player added
* Version 6.5.0 of RealVNC Server added
* Version 6.19.715 of RealVNC Viewer added (full image only)
* Version 12.0.1 of Mathematica added (full image only)
* Version 0.20.8 of NodeRED added (full image only)
* Version 3.1.0 of Sonic Pi added (full image only)
* Scratch 3 added (full image only)
* Bug fix - URL handling in Terminal
* Bug fix - octal values in SSIDs in network plugin
* Bug fix - remaining value in progress bar when transferring files
* Bug fix - integration of xarchiver tool with file manager
* Bug fix - start menu opening on incorrect monitor
* Bug fix - minimised applications wrongly displayed on taskbar on second monitor
* Bug fix - Bluetooth icon disappearing on x86 platforms when Bluetooth turned off
* Bug fix - Screen Configuration tool not shown on x86 platforms and settings not being saved
* Various translation updates
* Various minor bug fixes
* Epiphany/Web removed
* ntfs-3g included
* pciutils added
* Linux kernel 4.19.75
* Raspberry Pi firmware 01508e81ec1e918448227ca864616d56c430b46d
Version 3.2.6 of Thonny included - significant improvements in speed, particularly when debugging
Version 1.0.4 of Scratch 3 included - adds new “display stage” and “display sprite” blocks to SenseHAT extension, and loading of files from command line
Version 32.0.0.314 of Flash player included
Version 1.0.3 of NodeRED included
Version 6.6.0 of RealVNC Server and version 6.19.923 of RealVNC Viewer included - adds support for audio
Version 78.0.3904.108 of Chromium included
Mesa updated to 19.3.2 for OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance
Pixel doubling option added in Raspberry Pi Configuration on platforms using FKMS display driver
Orca screen reader added to Recommended Software
Code The Classics Python games added to Recommended Software
File manager - new “places” pane added at top of sidebar to show mounted drives in simplified view; “new folder” icon added to taskbar; expanders in directory browser now correctly show state of subfolders
Multiple monitor support improved - alignment of icons on second desktop corrected, Appearance Settings opens on correct tab when launched from context menu
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen correctly aligned with display
System clock synchronised before installing new packages in startup wizard and Recommended Software
Mixer dialogs added to taskbar volume plugin; separate Audio Preferences application removed
Raspberry Pi Configuration - separate tab added for display options; screen blanking control added
Volume taskbar plugin and raspi-config modified to support separate ALSA devices for internal audio outputs (analogue and HDMI 1 and 2)
Robustness improvements in volume, ejecter and battery taskbar plugins
Movement of mouse pointer to menu button on startup now controlled by point_at_menu parameter in Global section of lxpanel configuration file
Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Alt-End shortcuts added to open shutdown options box
Ctrl-Shift-Esc shortcut added to open task manager