I need pre-Pixel jessie

Hi all: I have been working on a project with my FIRST Robotics team which utilizes a RPi V3. I wanted to re-install the OS and then our software so I re-installed yesterday only to discover Jessie has been completely revised with Pixel. I really don't want to screw with Pixel right now and need to get my hands on the older version of Jessie. Can someone point me to right place to download an older version of NOOBS?

IMHO, Jessie should have been left as-is and a new name should have been released to denote the fairly massive changes made.

Thanks for the help.

bwelsby over 8 years ago

Hi Christopher,

you should be able to find older versions of NOOBS here:
Index of /NOOBS/images
older versions of Raspbian are here:
Index of /raspbian/images

Brian
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bwelsby over 8 years ago

IMHO, Jessie should have been left as-is and a new name should have been released to denote the fairly massive changes made.

FYI Jessie is the revision name for the Debian / Raspbian operating system and hasn't changed. PIXEL is the name they have given to their new X Windows Desktop which is running on top of Jessie
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rew over 8 years ago in reply to bwelsby

It should've been called PIXLE (same pronounciation). Less non-relevant hits on google.... :-) Works better in the acronym as well.
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cmosentine over 8 years ago in reply to bwelsby

OK, I now see Jessie is actually the underlying Debian build. You got me there.

More has changed under the hood. VNC was changed for one. Not sure what else. Did X change?

I guess if I can figure out a few things quickly I could live with the changes. Get rid of RealVNC for tightvnc OR allow simple resolution changing for VNC sessions. Our RPi will be headless and running at 640x480 really sucks on a large monitor. I have been able to get VNC running as a deamon rather than on a user-session basis but getting the resolution permanently changed eludes me.

Is there a how-to to getting MATE running? I have installed MATE but I have not yet figured out how to get it working.
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bwelsby over 8 years ago in reply to cmosentine

Other than normal bug fixing updates no there should be no changes to the core X windows system. For my headless Pis that I have running X I fixed the resolution with these lines in /boot/config.txt

framebuffer_width=1024
framebuffer_height=768

All you need to get Ubuntu Mate running should be here:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/
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ellieowen over 8 years ago

I downloaded Noobs v1.5.0 yesterday and installed Jessie, it doesn't look like Pixel was on this image. I'm downloading Raspbian Jessie with Pixel right now to see what happens. I see today's Noobs is v2.0.0.
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Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to bwelsby

Mate runs beautifully and with very little overhead. Go for it!
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ellieowen over 8 years ago in reply to ellieowen

Here is all the downloads:
Index of /raspbian/images
Index of /NOOBS/images
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