It’s been a bit quiet on the distro front recently, but here’s news of a brand new distro based on Debian Wheezy. It’s called pipaOS and features the following (the most impressive of which is the 10-second boot-time!):

• Fully functional Linux system based on latest Debian Wheezy
• Runs the official Raspberry PI kernel version 3.6.11
• Compact size fits in 1GB card, Root file system occupies 190MB, 225MB free disk space
• Built-in support for most popular wireless usb dongles
• Fast: login screen in 10 seconds, online wireless association in 20 seconds
• Network time synchronization built-in using public NTP servers
• System customization support: Just plug the SD-card and edit a text configuration file.
• System administrators can chroot into the card from a Linux Intel system, QEMU emulator is included
• Power failure tolerant: Uses ext2 file system, all regular system write operations in compact ramdisk
• Support for FM radio transmission built-in with text-to-speech information messages
• Empty expandable 512MB data partition separate from the OS, located at the end of the disk
• Automatic open wireless association builtin: just plug in a usb dongle and get connected
• Secure shell server ready, sysop user with root privileves available to login with password or RSA key
• USB tethering ready: Connect the Android/iPhone phone and get pipaOS networked

Sounds like an interesting one! It’s maintained by Albert Casals. Visit the pipaOS homepage.