Raspberry Pi, a much-loved single-board computer that sells for US$35, is evolving - with version 2 announced yesterday. With the hardware comes a new release of Raspbian (as well as NOOBS, a beginner-friendly compilation of several popular operating systems designed for Raspberry Pi).

As Raspberry Pi 2 is built using the ARMv7 processor, the latest Raspbian now comes with a Linux kernel built for ARMv7:

"Raspberry Pi 2 is available to buy today. Remember you'll need an updated NOOBS or Raspbian image including an ARMv7 kernel and modules from our downloads page. At launch, we are using the same ARMv6 Raspbian userland on both Raspberry Pi 1 and 2; over the next few months we will investigate whether we can obtain higher performance from regular ARMv7 Debian, or whether we can selectively replace a small number of libraries to get the best of both worlds. Now that we're using an ARMv7 core, we can also run Ubuntu."

Download links: NOOBS_v1_3_12.zip (737MB),
Code:
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS/images/NOOBS-2015-02-02/NOOBS_v1_3_12.zip
2015-01-31-raspbian.zip (977MB)
Code:
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2015-02-02/2015-01-31-raspbian.zip