As long as I’m in the hacker space, I might as well mention the latest Raspberry Pi OS, named Trixie, which dropped last week. Simon Long writes on the Raspberry Pi blog:

We’re past summertime, and it’s an odd-numbered year, which means there is a new major release of Debian Linux, which in turn means there is a new major release of Raspberry Pi OS. This year’s version of Debian is called Trixie — as many of you know, Debian releases are named after characters in Disney’s Toy Story series of films, but all the well-known characters have already been used, so the names are getting increasingly obscure! Trixie is apparently a blue plastic triceratops who appears in Toy Story 3, but I must admit I can’t remember her — then again, I only watched that one once, because it got a bit sad towards the end…

I’m disappointed Long didn’t remember Trixie. She’s adorable, voiced by the very funny Kristen Schaal, and not at all obscure! He’s right about the sad, though.

But I digress.

Right. The release.

The biggest change: the Linux system clock, which was headed to its own Year-2000-style apocalypse in 2038, forestalls the issue by moving from a 32-bit number to a 64-bit number, so come 2038, the world (again) won’t collapse because of a date rollover—we now have until the year 292,277,026,596 to worry about that.

(You don’t remember Y2K? Kiss a programmer.)

There’s also a new desktop theme (new icons, new font, new desktop backgrounds; still ugly) and an updated “Control Centre” (yes, Raspberry Pi is based in the U.K.).

I haven’t had much need for my Raspberry Pis recently, thanks to Digital Ocean, but perhaps I’ll update them just to see how the new Trixie OS feels. It’s got to be better than macOS Tahoe 26, amirite?