Raspberry Pi OS • Re: "Raspberry Pi OS 6.6" - Says who ?

The kernel version isn't the whole story.

That's how I've viewed it. While it can be important it's separate to what sits on top of it, what the user interacts with, particularly any Desktop GUI. To me, what one has, is a combination of -

• Desktop / Desktop applications pre-installed
• Graphical infrastructure
• Base operating system / distro
• Kernel
• Pi model

I usually refer to my Pi as "Pi 4B 1GB, Bookworm Desktop 32-bit, Wayland with labwc" and similar which covers most of the above, but notably not the kernel version. To me that's somewhat an irrelevancy, is whatever 'apt' delivers, varies over time.

I suppose a new Debian release usually requiring a bump in kernel is what gives a notional relationship between kernel, distro and everything else, but that's not as concrete as it may appear to be.

In terms of "Raspberry Pi OS 6.6 released", which is where I saw that, it related to adding Wayland support for all Pi models and I am not convinced that relates to kernel at all, seems more likely whatever download image Raspberry Pi has most recently released, what the Splash Screen would likely show as suggested. But the download page doesn't refer to "6.6" except as kernel version.

Statistics: Posted by hippy — Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:58 pm

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