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Is it possible to upgrade occidentalis 0.2 with the latest wheezy upgrades to improve the distro performance with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. Or can't I get the improvments if I don't have the "standard" debian distro?

Kind Regards

Christian
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It should always be safe to run system packages updates with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. Keep in mind, however, that the updates described on RPi front pages are done in firmware and (mostly) kernel.

Unfortunately, Occidentalis is not using official foundation kernel (and in facts this is the biggest changes in this distro). If you look on their repo, you can find that they didn't get that kernel changes yet so you will have to wait until they do.

The other way is to use official foundation kernel but you will loose most of Occidentalis unique features this way.

Krzysztof Adamski
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Short answer after testing it my self is, it works!

After update and upgrade start raspi-config and update this. I could not get the 1Ghz to work but I got "high mode" (950Mhz) working!

How did I check this worked? I installed nbench from http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html and run ./bench in the unpacked catalog.

My values might have been kind of low because I run under Xwin. Got this:

=====================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS=====================
INTEGER INDEX       : 15.668
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 5.021
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, ...
=========================LINUX DATA BELOW==========================
CPU                 :
L2 Cache            :
OS                  : Linux 3.2.27+
C compiler          : gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-8+rpi1)
libc                : libc-2.13.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 3.442
INTEGER INDEX       : 4.302
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 2.780
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, ..
Christian
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