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On 24 October 2012 the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that "all of the VideoCore driver code which runs on the ARM" had been released as [[free software]] under a [[BSD licenses|BSD-style license]], making it "the first ARM-based multimedia [[System-on-chip|SoC]] with {{Sic|hide=y|fully|-}}functional, vendor-provided (as opposed to partial, [[Reverse engineering|reverse engineered]]) fully [[Open-source software|open-source]] drivers", although this claim has not been universally accepted.<ref name="ARMuserland">{{cite web|title=Raspberry Pi maker says code for ARM chip is now open source|url=http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/all-code-on-raspberry-pis-arm-chip-now-open-source/|work=Ars Technica|accessdate=3 November 2012}}</ref>
On 25 May 2013 the Raspberry PI foundation pre-announced that (initially) for [[Raspbian]] they would switch from using the [[X Window System]] to the [[Wayland (display server protocol)|Wayland display server protocol]]. This would enable the efficient use of the GPU for [[Hardware acceleration|hardware accelerated]] GUI drawing functions. <ref name="
On June 3, 2012 the Raspberry PI foundation introduced a new tool called "New Out Of Box Software" or "NOOBS" which makes taking the Raspberry PI to use much easier by simplifying the installing of an Operating System on it. Instead of using specific software to "burn an SD-card", now all you have to do is to unzip a file and copy the contents over to a (4G or bigger) SD-card. then you can boot that card on the PI and are presented with a choice of six operating systems you can choose to install on the card. The system also contains a recovery partition that allows for the quick restoration of the OS you have chosen to install. <ref name="noobs">{{cite web | url=http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4100 | title=Introducing the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS) | publisher=RPF | date=3 june, 2012 | accessdate=4 June 2012 | author=Upton, Liz}}</ref>
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