Raspbmc for Raspberry Pi release candidate available

If you have your Raspberry Pi, you might be interested to know that Raspbmc is now at the release candidate stage.

This version addresses the following:

• CPU usage is much lower when idling
• fixes some stability issues with a new kernel
• SD card timeout issues are gone for good!
• reduces the swap partition to a reasonable 128M
• fixes an AirPlay bug (though AirTunes issues remain just for now)
• remote support via LIRC is now working
• the root filesystem is made a lot smaller.
• CPU overclocking tweak
• XBMC now runs as the user pi
• XBMC restarts if it crashes
• Kernel headers now available for building kernel modules for wireless support etc.
• SD cards can be swapped between Pis now without udev issues.
• You are asked to set timezone and keyboard layout on the first login via SSH
• Fixed bluish tint to fanart
• AudioEngine builds are here
• Menu sounds are here

This is what will be coming soon:

• stability improvements
• An add-on to configure Raspbmc from within XBMC

To get the new beta, you’ll need to reimage your SD card with the installer, available here