Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced PIXEL – Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, Lightweight desktop for Mac and PC back in September, after three months of work, the company has launched experimental version of PIXEL based on Linux-based Debian OS for x86 platforms. This has all the applications you need such as office suite, browser, educational games and programming tools you find on PIXEL on the Pi.
Since it uses venerable i386 architecture variant it runs even on vintage machines with at least 512MB of RAM. Since this is a prototype, there are likely to be minor issues on some hardware configurations, said the company.
“Many schools and students have older PCs sitting around doing nothing, and this can breathe new life into them. And porting PIXEL beyond Raspberry Pi will help ensure it’s as good as it can be,” said Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton.
You can Download the image, and either burn it to a DVD or write it to a USB stick and install it on a PC or a Mac. You can find more details on the official blog here.