Thanks to another heroic integration effort from Ola Jeppsson, we now have a much improved Parallella Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu 15.04. (Note the name change from “pubuntu” to “parabuntu”)

Here’s a selection of some of the pre-installed features:

HDMI improvements (Thanks to Peter Saunderson and Ola Jeppsson)

GDB Epiphany multicore support (Thanks to Pedro Alvez)

EPYTHON parallel programming framework (Thanks to Nick Brown)

OpenMP 4.0 Device Support (Thanks to University of Ioannina)

OpenCL (Thanks to Brown Deer Technologies)

PAL Epiphany backend (Thanks to Ola Jeppsson)

Fallback support for FPGA only loads (Thanks to Ola Jeppsson)

Epiphany multicore simulator support (Thanks to Ola Jeppsson)

GCC 5.4 Epiphany Upgrade

GDB 7.12 Epiphany Upgrade

Update to ADI Linux 2016_R1 Linux kernel branch

The full release notes can be found HERE. To burn a new SD card, visit the usual page.

To get started, burn a card and try one of the many parallella community projects.