Remember Lime? Now it’s back, and it’s better than ever. In fact, it’s every bit as good as Vanilla, but it also includes that extra hardware support you know and love from Flow, but with the bleeding edge freshness you got from Vanilla.

It’s 338 days late, sure, but with good reason. The version that was in progress back then was a hand-built image, that wouldn’t be updated daily. The current system will get freshly baked each day into an image that has the supreme hardware support, but also includes any new features and tweaks that appeared that day in Vanilla too.

Vastly improved hardware support!

Lime enjoys vastly improved hardware support compared to that of Vanilla. Here’s a list of the improvements in hardware support:

• Broadcom WiFi – BCM43XX
• Ralink WiFi – RT24XX, RT28XX, RT30XX
• Realtek WiFi – R8187SE, R8712U, RTL73, RTL8180, RTL8187, RTL8192XX
• nVidia GPUs – 6 series and newer

PAE requirement removed

If you were one of the unlucky folks to have a device that didn’t support a PAE kernel, you’re in luck, this is no longer a requirement with Lime!

Extra plugins as standard!

Need your fix of Java? Java is now fully supported with Lime! More plugins coming very soon!

You decide what gets added!

These are just a few of the changes featured in Lime, but there’s more! If there’s a piece of hardware that we don’t support where a Linux driver exists but isn’t being shipped, let me know and I’ll likely add it! Tweet me information regarding this. Please don’t post suggestions as comments to this post, as I don’t read them as regularly.